X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44EEE96E.3050202@byu.net> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:13:34 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, mingw-msys@lists.sourceforge.net, konrad.schwarz@siemens.com Subject: Re: POSIX names for drive letters References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM: > Hi, > > I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an > alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin > file-system name space. > > The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps > `//./C/'). Sorry, but I don't like this for cygwin (I don't care how msys decides on the issue, though). Cygwin already has /cygdrive/c mapping to c:\ in a default installation, and that is configurable through mount to be whatever a user wants (even /c). Cygwin also already has support for //server/share, and mixing in //./c would make that code path much more difficult to maintain. You probably won't get very far with this proposal in cygwin without actual patches and a LOT more convincing. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE7ulu84KuGfSFAYARAlLKAJ93RP1wysFqN0icYugjY2tOtPm6WwCgndPN +w0eOK25ljfNfJAyL2+STAQ= =m7fj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/