>>>>> "BD" == Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BD> My guess would be that you're doing the same thing as the poster in this BD> thread: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00353.html>. OK, here's what I find in that message: | On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: | .... | > So, you're changing the system-wide cygdrive prefix but since you have a | > user-defined cygdrive prefix it is taking precedent. I believe this was | > a recent change which is why you are seeing it now. | | and Pavel Toskov said: | | PT> Yes! There was a change in October 2004 which allowed the system prefix to | PT> be used no matter that a user prefix was specified. This is not the | PT> expected behaviour and it was changed in Cygwin 1.5.14 to work as it used | PT> to be in the past. <annoyed> Excuse me Brian, but this was not user error; the system behavior changed from one version to the next -- and then was changed back. And this is the precise issue that pushed me to join the list. I was more than torqued when my home directory abruptly changed from /pjh to /cygdrive/c/pjh, while a c:/bin directory -- which had predated cygwin, and in which I put non-unix-ish tools -- changed to /cygdrive/c/bin Nothing quite like having my mountpoints and paths inexplicably change from one upgrade to the next, with /cygdrive suddenly appearing from nowhere, breaking my nice, comfortable useful setup that had been running smoothly for the last six years. I can see where it's convenient to have user mount points versus system mount points, but it's unexpected, and the mount doc does a lousy job of clarifying the distinction, and doesn't define the system behavior at all. </annoyed> <accolades> On the other hand, my setup *has* been running smoothly and usefully for the last six years with only minor issues as cygwin has matured; for me, working in Windows would have been untenable without cygwin. </accolades> In any case, I'd found and modified the registry asymmetry between HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS by the time I'd waded through all the back archives without finding the source of the problem: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2] "cygdrive prefix"="/cygdrive" "cygdrive flags"=dword:00000022 versus: [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2] "cygdrive prefix"="/" "cygdrive flags"=dword:00000022 -- Patricia J. Hawkins Hawkins Internet Applications www.hawkinsia.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
