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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 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? ;-)
Are you kidding? There's way too many old fast food containers back 
there! ;-)

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