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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:47:23 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:00:29AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:18:20PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>
>>>That's why I've long since changed cygdrive prefix to /dev! ;-)
>>
>>Because we all know how linux loves to put filesystems under /dev!
>>
>>ls /dev/home
>
>Well there are file systems under /dev in a way. Am I necessarily trying 
>to emulate Linux religiously? No. To me /dev is where I would naturally 
>expect a C *drive*, which is not really a file system but a device in my 
>view (IOW I can pull out my C drive, hold it in my hand and say - this 
>is my C device!). Also /dev is short - shorter than cygdrive anyway and 
>I just naturally think, "C Drive" ~= "C Device", "D Drive" ~= "D Device".
>
>No, /home for me in a domain environment is usually on the file server 
>thus a mount //<server>/<homeshare> /home works just fine. Outside a 
>domain environment C:/Home/<User> (I've long since hacked the registry 
>to change the usual "C:\Documents and Settings" -> "C:\Home") can as 
>easily be mounted with mount c:/home /home.
>
>I also do mounts for things like C:\Program Files -> /apps, making 
>things like ls /apps/Fire<tab> a breeze. YMMV.
>
>There's the "You must adhere to pure *nix conventions" mentality and 
>there's the "I will utilize what the system offers to make my life 
>easier" mentality - both with pluses and minuses...

Yes, I understood that if you are using /dev in this way that it is
purely an idiosyncratic thing that doesn't necessarily make any sense
when you consider the pure UNIX sense of what /dev is supposed to be
for.  I just wouldn't recommend this for the general cygwin populace.
If we ever start doing something like udev on cygwin you're going to
have some problems.

/mnt makes a little more sense for an alternate location, IMO.

cgf

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