From: paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua (Paul Sokolovsky)
Subject: Treatment of absolute paths by cygwin
26 Nov 1998 03:14:55 -0800
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Reply-To: Paul Sokoilovsky <paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua>
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To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Hello Cygwin32-developers,

  As of previous experience, I get used to put all development stuff
on one disk, so I may skip drive letter in path, and with mingw32, I
even get normal POSIX paths like /usr/bin at no cost. But cygwin
introduces its own way of mounting. That's sure not bad and even may
be useful, but that that view forced is embarrassing, imho. I just have
spent some time wondering why mkdir -p /egcs/include doesn't create
anything (silently). I was sure that mkdir worked before, and only
when I looked and saw there were relative path, I understand where's
problem: all toplevel directories must be mounted ;-\

  So, my proposal is after mount table (how wonderful it would be, if
before!) search just try to perform operation directly.

  Sorry that I don't send patch, I have know experience of hacking
cygdll, and don't have time for startup now, I guess author can that
in five minutes, if they find that sane.

Best regards,
 Paul                          mailto:paul-ml AT is DOT lg DOT ua