Why not mount / at C: ?

[Bernard Dautrevaux]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [ mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com ]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: Jean-Paul Le Fevre; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: Why not mount / at C: ?
> 
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> I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support 
> unmounted drives in
> the Cygwin environment.  It gets far to confusing and there 
> are solutions
> around not having the support.  Saying this, IMO, we should 
> deprecate the
> unmounted drives support.  What do you think?
> 

No, please :-)

Currently the naming scheme allows simple conversion from posix paths to NT
paths with almost no cost: its simply transliteration (that's why I like so
much the //X/path stuff, but I can live with /cygdrive/X/path as I only have
to read the registry once at program startup to get the -- changeable --
string to use as 'cygdrive').

Suppressing the support for unmounted drives would need to search the mount
table for each such transliteration; as I'm using a lot of non-cygwin
programs I write from cygwin that would force me to manually handle the
cygwin mount table in these cases ;-(

Regards,

	Bernard

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