[PATCH v3 2/2] Cygwin: expose all windows volume mount points.

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 13 10:08, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Feb 13 15:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > I think this looks good, including patch 3.
> >
> > To wit:
> >
> >   $ mount | grep drvmount
> >   C:/drvmount on /mnt/c/drvmount type ntfs (binary,posix=0,noumount,auto)
> >   $ mount C:/drvmount /home/corinna/drv
> >   $ mount | grep drvmount
> >   C:/drvmount on /home/corinna/drv type ntfs (binary,user)
> >   C:/drvmount on /mnt/c/drvmount type ntfs (binary,posix=0,noumount,auto)
> >   $ df /mnt/c/drvmount
> >   Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >   C:/drvmount      4175868 56744   4119124   2% /mnt/c/drvmount
> >   $ df /home/corinna/drv
> >   Filesystem     1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >   C:/drvmount      4175868 56744   4119124   2% /home/corinna/drv
> >
> > > If you're fine with that,
> > > I'll push all three patches.
> 
> Sounds good to me.  It's less code, and the code it calls
> (cygdrive_posix_path) is more efficient because it doesn't have to loop
> through all mounts.  As long as you're ok with the change in behavior
> that:
> 
> mount C: /c
> mount
> 
> will now show C: on both /c and /cygdrive/c, instead of just /c as before
> (this is the behavior all of that de-duplication mess was trying to
> replicate).

The new behaviour makes more sense, actually.

Pushed!

Would you mind to send a patch with a release message we can add
to release/3.6.0?


Thanks,
Corinna