Subject: Re: ls / does not show /c with cygdrive prefix=/
From: Mikel Ward <mward@aconex.com>
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:36:52 +1000
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> I don't know what you would like to read.  It's part of the way the
> Cygwin DLL handles that stuff.  To enumerate the available
> directories,
> the directory opened with opendir() must have been recognized as the
> cygdrive directory.  If that happens, *only* drives are enumerated
> since the cygdrive directory is a virtual directory anyway.
> This method can't work on / since then you would have a broken
> filesystem tree.  That's why we frown on / as cygdrive directory (at
> least I do, but apparently nobody cares).

OK.  So cygdrive prefix is like a mount point.

No problem. :-)

Thanks

Mike


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