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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:12:52 -0800
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:02:41 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> In absence of such a mount, Cygwin maps / to the root of the current
> Windows working directory (e.g. H:\ or \\computer\share)
> 
> [this is the long standing behavior, see
>  http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00016.html]

Thanks Pierre, I see that you provided a patch on September 5:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q3/msg00082.html

I take it that this formerly "undocumented" behavior is now 
here to stay.

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