I use
ln -s /cygdrive/c /c
ln -s /cygdrive/f /f
etc as a convenient mechanism to arrange that the
shorthand /c/{pathname} can be used instead of the
longer /cygdrive/c/{pathname}. I only have to do this once and if I had
not happened for other reasons to need to re-create these links I would
not have noticed the following; but I did need to.
Following the recent upgrade to cygutils I find that the symlink is
created as /c.exe not /c and /f.exe not /f in cases where the drive
exists. Where it doesn't (e.g. it isn't plugged in but might be later so
I am just preparing the way) then
ln -s /cygdrive/h /h
works as before: the symlink /h exists, and is not called /h.exe.
Fergus
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