On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:40:51AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 27 10:35, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: >>>From: Corinna Vinschen On Jul 25 14:29, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: >>>>There seems no way of mapping device names (resp. Win32 Device >>>>Namespace names) to mount points -- >>> >>>Cygwin mount pounts are not mapping disk devices to POSIX pathnames, >>>but Win32 pathnames to POSIX pathnames. >> >>That is incompatibile with Linux's /proc/mount and mount(8). > >Yes. Cygwin is *not* an operating system. It does not mount devices. >That's the task of the NT kernel as in > >"\??\C:" ==> "\Device\HarddiskVolume2". > >Cygwin mount points are mapping from a POSIX to a Win32 path, nothing >else. That's how it is defined.
And that is how it has operated (and has been documented to operate) for, oh I don't know, fifteen+ years or so? It's not going to change. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
