X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:45:33 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <182640b4a6730dafadd266e0cfc9d9bf@mail.smartmobili.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.9.12 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 * Vincent R. (Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:08:59 +0200) > > 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. It's not complicating things. To the contrary: it's simplifying. Right now the structure in / is a neat subset of a Unix / root. If you had all these a, b, c, d, e, k, z folders in between (not to mention any network drives) that would look a whole lot less good. It's more or less the same reason why you shouldn't install Cygwin directly to C:\ (but to C:\cygwin): so you don't have the Cygwin and the Windows root folder structure mixed. Thorsten -- 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