-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to fergus on 7/8/2005 9:57 PM: > There must be something special about doing this with a drivename.
Yes - /cygdrive is virtual, so drivenames in that directory are managed entirely by cygwin instead of by Windows. Windows-managed files (99% of what you use) don't have any problems. > Can any expert confirm whether I ought to look elsewhere for this > strange appendix? > I admit it's my fault for meddling but it's not that daft an activity to > have pursued, and certainly > ln -s /cygdrive/c /c > must be a fairly common solution to an annoying problem (that of having > to write a lot). Actually, a more common solution is to use "mount" to move the cygdrive prefix to a spelling other than its default (usually /, as mentioned in the FAQ, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC53). - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCz03G84KuGfSFAYARAteSAJ97wRNETP62vsdc6PM3mKJQP6abbACglz2B 1pGK+m2JXRdAMaR/dXMNUYs= =qi+j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
