Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:24:06 -0600 (CST) From: Eduardo R Larranaga To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken? In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20011204121826.022a69a8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/