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Re: POSIX names for drive letters
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:13:34AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM:
>>I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an
>>alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin
>>file-system name space.
>>
>>The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps
>>`//./C/').
>
>Sorry, but I don't like this for cygwin (I don't care how msys decides
>on the issue, though). Cygwin already has /cygdrive/c mapping to c:\
>in a default installation, and that is configurable through mount to be
>whatever a user wants (even /c). Cygwin also already has support for
>//server/share, and mixing in //./c would make that code path much more
>difficult to maintain.
>
>You probably won't get very far with this proposal in cygwin without
>actual patches and a LOT more convincing.
Yes. What he said.
Thanks for putting it so succinctly, Eric.
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