From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Removing //<drive-letter>/
21 Sep 1998 17:32:35 -0700
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 04:21:26PM -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>OK, I'm not going to let this die.  :-)
>
>So one last attempt at this, there seemed to be a fair amount of
>consensus last time the subject of removing //<drive-letter>/ came up.
>Most people seemed to think that removing it would be good idea.
>This includes Syd in SN land, some people on the gnu-win32 list,
>etc...  If we did want to do this, B20 might be a good time to do it.
>
>So this is my proposal:
>
>1) Rip out the //<drive-letter>/ handling code.
>2) Accept /disk/<drive-letter> or /dsk/<drove-letter> instead?  Ian
>   pointed out once upon a time that Unix users won't expect to find
>   file systems under /dev which makes sense to me.
>
>Alternatively, skip 2) and require people to use "mount".

The problem with automatically using /disk or /dev or /a, /b, or
whatever, is that there is always bound to be somebody with a
directory of that name.

If we force people to use "mount" then we'll undoubtedly get
people asking why they can't get to their e: drive.

Another idea:  How about something like /c:/ ?

>Opinions?  Should I take a poll of the gnu-win32 list?

How about the cygwin32-developers list?  I tend to value the
opinions there a little more.

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