X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <48860E8A.163AFAF2@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:44:58 -0700 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange things with cygdrive References: <48850832.8020804@alice.it> <4885B516.1030700@alice.it> <48860253.4010707@alice.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 "Mark J. Reed" wrote: > Well, now, that's a very good point. The mod time on /proc seems to > be set to Dec 1st, 2006 at midnight UTC (same on my system) - where > did that number come from? It seems like some consistency among > virtual directories isn't too much to ask. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q1/msg00111.html The difference is simply that /proc and /cygdrive are plumbed differently, e.g. /cygdrive is kind of a virtual mount entry and its name can be changed, whereas /proc is fixed and compiled in. Brian -- 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/