On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:18:26AM +0200, Schwarz, Konrad wrote: >As far as I understand, Cygwin mount knows about >- fixed mounts /, /usr/bin, /usr/lib >- user-defined mounts taken from /etc/fstab, /etc/fstab.d, and the command-line >- Win32 drive letters implicitly mounted under /cygdrive > >The last case is actually handled by Windows, as you point out. > >What would be the problem (otherwise than backwards compatibility) in using >Cygwin device names in this last case?
The above is inaccurate and misleading. Cygwin's mount utility is a mapping between windows paths and posix paths. That's it. The "drive letters" above could be anything that Windows maps to a drive letter. A drive does not necessarily directly map to a physical device. >For the second case (and the first, should you so desire), you could use >the /cygdrive prefix or //server/share notation, as above. /cygdrive is a user-settable value. Some users use other values like "/dev" instead of /cygdrive. Some people get rid of the /cygdrive entirely and just map to /a. We're not going to introduce this level of recursive confusion to the mount table handling. Please give it a rest. We're not changing the mount table for you. 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
