Subject: Re: Strange things with cygdrive
From: [email-masked]
To: "Mark J. Reed" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:51:20 -0400
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

Mark J. Reed writes:

> /cygdrive is not a real directory. That "horrible" metadata you're
> complaining about isn't actually stored anywhere, it's generated by
> the system when you ask for it.  A modification to the cygwin
> filesystem code could change what it reports, but what would you have
> it report?  What's the meaning of the "last modified" date on a
> nonexistent directory that can't actually be modified?

The most recent time a drive was mounted or unmounted, presumably, since
that's what causes the contents of that directory to change.  Actually
keeping track of this is probably not worth the effort, though (especially
since it's not clear where you'd store it).

-- 
Jonathan Lennox
lennox at cs dot columbia dot edu

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