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Re: new cygwin.dll (was Re: Make problems)
> Another question, what about the initial value of "cygdrive prefix"
> in the registry database :
> why isn't it set to empty by default ?
I thought that /cygdrive would make the best default because it
wouldn't likely be a directory already in existance at the top level
of any drives. Just using slash, is what I prefer personally but it's
much more likely that someone would have a directory like "a" at the
top level of a Windows filesystem so I don't like that as the general
default.
The new automount system is important in that it guarantees that
Cygwin will have a way to translate any Win32 path back to a valid
POSIX path. (Since we're deprecating //<drive-letter>/ as that
mechanism, we had to come up with another way).
I don't expect we'll change it from how things are in the current
snapshots in the next Cygwin release. At least, not in terms of the
new mount table layout.
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Geoffrey Noer Email: noer@cygnus.com
Cygnus Solutions
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