From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: Removing //<drive-letter>/
23 Sep 1998 15:52:31 -0700
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To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 08:07:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > Another idea:  How about something like /c:/ ?
> 
> That's going to do nasty things for POSIX path parsing.
> 
> DJ suggests using /mnt/<drive-letter>.  This is probably the best
> suggestion I've heard so far?
>
> --
> Geoffrey Noer
> noer AT cygnus DOT com

Any UNIXish pathname could unfortunately exist in somebodies
environment (e.g. /mnt, which is typically used as temporary
mount point) and the usage of any path-like solution equals
the usage of mount points.

So, why not the mount requirement?

Documentation will help the folks while installation and they
will ask questions about this in any case!

Corinna