Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox

Elfyn McBratney elfyn@cygwin.com
Tue Jul 1 19:32:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:00:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >   mount `cygpath --windows` /windows
>
> Gosh, I'm still used to think "symlink" when we also could do a mount.
>
> However, what about the symlink using symbolic cygdrive prefix idea?
>
> Corinna

Sorry for chiming in late, but what about a `/dev/sysdir|windir|windows|something'
which would be persistant, to access the windows System drive, directory, etc.
It's bloat, but IMO, would aid in this problem.

Elfyn
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