Jeremy Bopp writes: > The concern posed by the instigator of this thread is that it can't be > known from the output of "mount -p" whether or not the spaces which > follow the listed cygdrive prefix are part of the prefix or padding for > the outputted columns. It should be pretty rare that someone > intentionally uses trailing spaces in their cygdrive prefix, but I can > understand the desire for robustness.
Yes - that was precisely my point. I am updating scripts that are used on an open source project so I want them to be robust. If it were just for my own use, I wouldn't even need to use "mount -p" since I know what *my* cygdrive prefix is. But if you are writing general scripts, I think it is pretty reasonable and basic to have a clear, easy, and robust way to know what the root of the system is. As an analogy, imagine if in Linux root were not always "/" and that there were no good way to robustly determine what your particular value of root was -- certainly that would break (or at least potentially break) many scripts. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/1.7--Can-you-have-multipe-cygdrive-path-prefixes-active-at-once-tp26227605p26249482.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
