Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000427145817.7283.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:58:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Various questions - docs, paths To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" , "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote: > At 09:05 AM 4/27/00, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >--- Chris Faylor wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 05:46:24AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > > >Nice point. This needs to be added to the TODO list. BTW, why is your > root > > > >mounted on D: and your package installed in H:\Cygnus? Why not change > your > > > >mount of / to `mount -f -b h:/Cygnus /'? It should work much better > that > > > way. > > > > > > What needs to be added? We're not going to be putting /cygdrive paths in > > > the mount table. > > > > > > >The display of the cygdrive prefix needs to be added to the output of > `mount'. > >Currently the only way to know the values of this is to either use regedit > or > >cygcheck. > > > I'm not sure if I understand your point here Earnie. As I understand it, the > /cygdrive paths get generated automatically and "on-the-fly" when someone or > something references a path to a Windows drive that has not been explicitly > mounted (i.e. is not in the mount table). The /cygdrive path exists only as > long as its needed/used, so its transient. Seems to me that it makes sense > to > simply add to the documentation that those who want to eliminate the > /cygdrive > prefix from one of their paths should simply mount the drive in question to > their favorite path... or am I missing some important point in all this? > The /cygdrive is stored in the registry and can be modified by `mount'. Therefore, the contents of the data should be displayed in the output of `mount'. ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com