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Hi Larry,

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Genuine bug?
>
> No, a feature.  Having the existing drives show up under '/cygdrive' 
> is a convenience
> for things like bash and other shells so that they can do completion 
> on the paths to
> these drives.  If you don't want what's under the '/cygdrive' 
> directory, you can omit
> it from your invocation of 'find'.
>

Respectfully, I think you've misunderstood my problem. I've just
posted a followup which will show an out and out inconsistency (well,
at least in my opinion):

Shaddy@x-vista ~
$ ls /cygdrive/c/software/cygwin/cygdrive

Shaddy@x-vista ~
$ cd /cygdrive/c/software/cygwin/

Shaddy@x-vista /cygdrive/c/software/cygwin
$ ls ./cygdrive
c  d  e

Shaddy@x-vista /cygdrive/c/software/cygwin
$

IMO, the result of the first ls is the more logical. It at least is
consistent with 1.5 if anything else (not that this is a strong
argument).

Regards,
Shaddy


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