On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:00:29AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:18:20PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >>>That's why I've long since changed cygdrive prefix to /dev! ;-) >> >>Because we all know how linux loves to put filesystems under /dev! >> >>ls /dev/home > >Well there are file systems under /dev in a way. Am I necessarily trying >to emulate Linux religiously? No. To me /dev is where I would naturally >expect a C *drive*, which is not really a file system but a device in my >view (IOW I can pull out my C drive, hold it in my hand and say - this >is my C device!). Also /dev is short - shorter than cygdrive anyway and >I just naturally think, "C Drive" ~= "C Device", "D Drive" ~= "D Device". > >No, /home for me in a domain environment is usually on the file server >thus a mount //<server>/<homeshare> /home works just fine. Outside a >domain environment C:/Home/<User> (I've long since hacked the registry >to change the usual "C:\Documents and Settings" -> "C:\Home") can as >easily be mounted with mount c:/home /home. > >I also do mounts for things like C:\Program Files -> /apps, making >things like ls /apps/Fire<tab> a breeze. YMMV. > >There's the "You must adhere to pure *nix conventions" mentality and >there's the "I will utilize what the system offers to make my life >easier" mentality - both with pluses and minuses...
Yes, I understood that if you are using /dev in this way that it is purely an idiosyncratic thing that doesn't necessarily make any sense when you consider the pure UNIX sense of what /dev is supposed to be for. I just wouldn't recommend this for the general cygwin populace. If we ever start doing something like udev on cygwin you're going to have some problems. /mnt makes a little more sense for an alternate location, IMO. cgf -- 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/
