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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:24:32 -0700
From: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
To: Samy Alex ZAIMI <zaimi AT kiwi DOT iamp DOT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: new cygwin.dll (was Re: Make problems)
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In-Reply-To: <3765D07A.355ACB5C@kiwi.iamp.tohoku.ac.jp>; from Samy Alex ZAIMI on Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 05:03:06AM +0000

> Another question, what about the initial value of "cygdrive prefix"
> in the registry database :
> why isn't it set to empty by default ?

I thought that /cygdrive would make the best default because it
wouldn't likely be a directory already in existance at the top level
of any drives.  Just using slash, is what I prefer personally but it's
much more likely that someone would have a directory like "a" at the
top level of a Windows filesystem so I don't like that as the general
default.

The new automount system is important in that it guarantees that
Cygwin will have a way to translate any Win32 path back to a valid
POSIX path.  (Since we're deprecating //<drive-letter>/ as that
mechanism, we had to come up with another way).

I don't expect we'll change it from how things are in the current
snapshots in the next Cygwin release.  At least, not in terms of the
new mount table layout.

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Geoffrey Noer		Email: noer AT cygnus DOT com
Cygnus Solutions

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