X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:08:59 +0200 From: "Vincent R." To: Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <182640b4a6730dafadd266e0cfc9d9bf@mail.smartmobili.com> X-Sender: forumer@smartmobili.com User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:02:19 -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Vincent R. wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any good reason to force user to use /cygdrive/ before >> accessing a drive ? > Considering you aren't forced to use /cygdrive/ (see mount(1m)) no... >> I am asking it because I regularly switch from cygwin to mingw and >> some simple script needs to be adapted every time. > Huh? Can't your script sense you're using Cygwin or Mingw? >> Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering >> cygdrive? Is there any reason for that ? > What would be your proposal for a POSIX path to indicate you are now > accessing a Windows drive by letter? "/cygdrive/" is just a string > indicating this. You can change it with mount(1m). Personally I (ab)use > /dev... Ok I see your point but I find it weird to complicate things by adding /cygdrive. Maybe some people are crazy enough to create folders with one letter at filesystem root but that's not my case so typing /c means I want to access C drive. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple