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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:14:25 -0600 (CST)
From: Eduardo R Larranaga <Eduardo DOT R DOT Larranaga AT syntegra DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?
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In the Cygwin User's guide is a suggestion (and an example) to change the
default prefix with the mount command:

  mount -change-cygdrive-prefix /

It seems that many of us have chosen to go with changing the prefix to /, but
with the latest version of cygwin 1.3.6-1 this leads to / being unusable.  Being
able to do an "ls /" and see the contents of C:\ is a very desirable feature.

In the recent announcement of cygwin 1.3.6-1 the following line describes a new
feature which, I believe, causes this breakage:

  -  Allow use of /cygdrive as a directory.   (Christopher Faylor)

I'd like to ask the Cygwin developers to explain if this is:

  a) being considered a bug that will be fixed, or
  b) this is a change in cygwin behavior that we'll have to live with, or
  c) none of the above - the prefix is changed in a different way now

Thanks,

Ed


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