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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:26:41 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ls & "magic" cygdrive dir (was: RE: cygdrive stuff)
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In-Reply-To: <NFBBLOMHALONCDMPGBLFKEFJCCAA.info@rlsystems.net>; from info@rlsystems.net on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:17:59PM +0200

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:17:59PM +0200, Ronald Landheer wrote:
> So, if I understand correctly, devices *always* take precedence over 
> files? Conflicts between them are *absolutely* impossible?
> Just making sure - seems too good to be true :)

But it is true.  The reason is that a path is always translated
by calling a `look for device' function very early in the path
translation (path.cc).

Corinna

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