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Subject: Re: cygdrive flags / hiding cygdrive prefix directory (the old behavior)
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On 6/13/06, Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> wrote:

> > changed to become visible.  The cygwin installer now also creates a
> > real directory on the windows file system called cygdrive,
>
> I don't know where you got this idea but it's absolutely not true.
> There should never be a physical directory backing the cygdrive prefix,
> and no package (and certainly not setup.exe) should ever create it.
> Some users may create it to assist in tab-completion, but that is
> something they would have done by hand.

I agree that it shouldn't create this directory... But i have tried
this a couple more times to verify.  If i only do a base install, it
does not create a physical cygdrive directory, but if i install
everything, it does.  (for reference, this is from a full download to
disk on june 8, 2006 from the sourceware.mirrors.tds.net mirror).


> This change was made in 1.5.19:
> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-01/msg00016.html>.  It
> was a change to the code in the DLL, and it has nothing to do with flags
> in the mount table.

Great!  This is what i was looking for.  Do you think anyone at cygwin
would consider making this feature optional in a later release?



- Kral

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