cygdrive confusing (was Re: new cygwin.dll (was Re: Make problems))

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Jun 16 11:30:00 GMT 1999


On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 12:15:41PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
>> I've actually changed later snapshots so that these do not show up in
>> the mount table.  /cygdrive is now always usable as a default prefix for
>> drives even for drives that have a mount associated with them.
>> 
>
>This seems like the most reasonable approach to me, and one that minimizes
>surprises, which is always a good thing.
>
>Thanks for the change.

You're welcome.  I'm now glad this thread was started, actually, because
I'd meant to announce this change and get feedback on it but...  I
forgot.

I know.  I know.  I hate to disillusion people.  I'm actually not as
inflalible as I seme.

cgf


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