X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Wrong links in /etc Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:27:23 -0500 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <452EC959.7642F0D1@dessent.net> <20061012235717.GA10855@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <20061012235717.GA10855@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >> FWIW, my vote goes for making something like /dev/systemroot to map >> to the Windows system32 directory, rather than making a second >> cygdrive prefix that never changes. > This isn't up for a vote. There will be no filesystems under /dev as > long as I'm associated with Cygwin. > > As I stated earlier, I don't see any reason to add more complication > to Cygwin's path handling. We can deal with the current problem with a > mount point. I've set cygdrive prefix to /dev for years with no ill effects.... -- Andrew DeFaria What was the best thing before sliced bread? -- 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/