On 6/13/06, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I agree that it shouldn't create this directory... But i have tried this a couple more times to verify. If i only do a base install, it does not create a physical cygdrive directory, but if i install everything, it does. (for reference, this is from a full download to disk on june 8, 2006 from the sourceware.mirrors.tds.net mirror).
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.
Great! This is what i was looking for. Do you think anyone at cygwin would consider making this feature optional in a later release? - Kral -- 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/
