X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Matthew Woehlke Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive? Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:58:49 -0500 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <20070521041542.GA23520@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20070521142944.GC6003@calimero.vinschen.de> <004301c79bb6$c8c70db0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20070521152515.GD6003@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070521164542.GF6003@calimero.vinschen.de> <20070523165335.GQ6003@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Lev Bishop wrote: > Also, why do you have it so that -s is not just a synonym for -d, and > why doesn't -l force -w? There seems to be no advantage to forcing the > user to specify an additional flag. ...as I previously noted, '-us' is a reasonable combination of flags, thus '-ul' is also reasonable. I did suggest that '-l' should /imply/ '-w' unless '-u' is used. (disclaimer: I haven't looked at the snapshot) -- Matthew "I can hear you / just barely hear you / I can just barely hear you" -- "I Can Hear You", by They Might Be Giants -- 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/