This is about the subject thread on the cygwin list. Should we get rid of PATH_ISDISK? It seems to only be used in the passwd/group loading code. W:/src/winsup/cygwin: fgrep isdisk *.cc path.cc: set_isdisk (); uinfo.cc: if (pc.error || !pc.exists () || !pc.isdisk () || pc.isdir ()) Pierre