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According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an
> alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin
> file-system name space.
> 
> The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps
> `//./C/').

Sorry, but I don't like this for cygwin (I don't care how msys decides on
the issue, though).  Cygwin already has /cygdrive/c mapping to c:\ in a
default installation, and that is configurable through mount to be
whatever a user wants (even /c).  Cygwin also already has support for
//server/share, and mixing in //./c would make that code path much more
difficult to maintain.

You probably won't get very far with this proposal in cygwin without
actual patches and a LOT more convincing.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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