pwd command output

Corinna Vinschen corinna@vinschen.de
Sun Oct 31 19:54:00 GMT 1999


Keith Starsmeare wrote:
> [...]
> Why have the drives been mapped under "cygdrive" - that's quite a
> confusing name as it's referring to the DOS or Window's drives! Why not
> mount them on /dev (in the Unix style) instead?

Think twice.
The /dev directory contains devices, not file systems.

Regards,
Corinna


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