On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:56:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:05:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Looks like the cygdrive prefix takes precedence over explicit mounts. > > > This is arguably a bug. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. > > > Corinna or Chris, care to comment? > > > > My name doesn't start with C, but I will comment that if the precedence > > went the other way, a mount like: > > > > mount c:/foo /cygdrive/d > > > > would make a windows path d:\bar have no posix translation. > > How is this different from > > mount c:/baz /somemount > mount c:/foo /somemount/d > > (except for the fact that /cygdrive/d is an automount)? I'm actually not > sure what's meant by "posix translation" in this context...
For example, assume a windows PATH=d:\bar. What does a cygwin program convert PATH to at startup? There would be no equivlent, since /cygdrive/d/bar would mean c:/foo/bar, not d:/bar. -- 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/
