kralius wrote: > changed to become visible. The cygwin installer now also creates a > real directory on the windows file system called cygdrive,
I don't know where you got this idea but it's absolutely not true. There should never be a physical directory backing the cygdrive prefix, and no package (and certainly not setup.exe) should ever create it. Some users may create it to assist in tab-completion, but that is something they would have done by hand. > but even if > I delete this or change the cygdrive prefix to something non-default > (like /mnt), it will still show up (with ls, find, etc.). This change was made in 1.5.19: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-01/msg00016.html>. It was a change to the code in the DLL, and it has nothing to do with flags in the mount table. > For a while, i suspected this had something to do with the cygdrive > flags parameter (in the registry under ...\cygwin\mounts v2 ), but i'm > having no success playing with that now, and the cygwin faq and > mailing list archives are all very quiet about the subject. The only > mention of cygdrive flags in the registry that i could find was at > least 3 years old and got a reply to the effect of "don't mess with > the registry!" (*sigh*) Here is where your logic becomes flawed. There is nothing in the flags or the registry that affects this. Looking for such a thing will not turn up anything. The reason that everyone always says to stop poking around in the registry is because there is *nothing* that you can do to the mount table in the registry that cannot be done more cleanly and safely with mount/umount. That is the entire reason why those commands exist. All of the values of 'flags' map directly onto the various options for "mount". > Does anyone have an idea how to get the old behavior back of hiding > the cydrive prefix directory? If you're using find then I suggest looking at its manual, and using -xdev. > And, whether or not it is related, does anyone know how the cygdrive > flags parameter is defined, what options can be set with it, etc. ? man mount Brian -- 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/
