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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>> FWIW, my vote goes for making something like /dev/systemroot to map 
>> to the Windows system32 directory, rather than making a second 
>> cygdrive prefix that never changes.
> This isn't up for a vote. There will be no filesystems under /dev as 
> long as I'm associated with Cygwin.
>
> As I stated earlier, I don't see any reason to add more complication 
> to Cygwin's path handling. We can deal with the current problem with a 
> mount point.
I've set cygdrive prefix to /dev for years with no ill effects....

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