X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:44:27 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: POSIX names for drive letters Message-ID: <20060825154427.GD9438@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <44EEE96E.3050202@byu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44EEE96E.3050202@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:13:34AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM: >>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. Yes. What he said. Thanks for putting it so succinctly, Eric. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> aaaspam@sourceware.org Cygwin Co-Project Leader aaaspam@duffek.com TimeSys, Inc. -- 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/