X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:05:08 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/ Message-ID: <20090929070508.GB15296@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1254099878.2604.21.camel@mward-laptop> <20090928113241.GO30851@calimero.vinschen.de> <1254179987.2690.1.camel@mward-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1254179987.2690.1.camel@mward-laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) 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 Sep 29 09:19, Mikel Ward wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Mikel Ward wrote: > > > If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the > > > drive letters appear in a directory listing: > > > > > > $ ls /cygdrive > > > c d w > > > > > > But if I change cygdrive to /, they don't: > > > > > > Is there any way to make /c, etc. appear in the listing? > > > > Manually, yes, automatically, no. You can change your cygdrive > > folder to any other folder and the drives will show up there. > > This has only been disabled for the root folder for performance > > reasons. > > Thanks Corinna. > > Roughly what was the performance impact? > > Is there any way to disable this special case to get the behavior I want > with prefix=/? No, sorry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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