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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:24:06 -0600 (CST)
From: Eduardo R Larranaga <Eduardo DOT R DOT Larranaga AT syntegra DOT com>
To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?
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Hi,

  I *have* been reading the archives and I do not see an answer to this issue,
  only complaints.

Ed

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

> At 12:14 PM 12/4/2001, Eduardo R Larranaga wrote:
> >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
> 
> 
> It's worthwhile to check the email list archives before asking these
> kinds of questions.  The answers are often there (and certainly are 
> there in this case).  It's good practice... and useful too! ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
> 838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX
> 
> 


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