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Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> 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....
> 

Have you looked behind your computer recently? ;-)

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