On Sep 29 09:19, Mikel Ward wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Mikel Ward wrote: > > > If I use a standard install with the cygdrive prefix as /cygdrive, the > > > drive letters appear in a directory listing: > > > > > > $ ls /cygdrive > > > c d w > > > > > > But if I change cygdrive to /, they don't: > > > > > > Is there any way to make /c, etc. appear in the listing? > > > > Manually, yes, automatically, no. You can change your cygdrive > > folder to any other folder and the drives will show up there. > > This has only been disabled for the root folder for performance > > reasons. > > Thanks Corinna. > > Roughly what was the performance impact? > > Is there any way to disable this special case to get the behavior I want > with prefix=/?
No, sorry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
