On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:13:34AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Schwarz, Konrad on 8/25/2006 1:57 AM: >>I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an >>alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin >>file-system name space. >> >>The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps >>`//./C/'). > >Sorry, but I don't like this for cygwin (I don't care how msys decides >on the issue, though). Cygwin already has /cygdrive/c mapping to c:\ >in a default installation, and that is configurable through mount to be >whatever a user wants (even /c). Cygwin also already has support for >//server/share, and mixing in //./c would make that code path much more >difficult to maintain. > >You probably won't get very far with this proposal in cygwin without >actual patches and a LOT more convincing.
Yes. What he said. Thanks for putting it so succinctly, Eric. -- Christopher Faylor spammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cygwin Co-Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] TimeSys, Inc. -- 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/
