Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/09/22/07:26:09
At 05:26 PM 9/21/98 -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 08:07:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> Another idea: How about something like /c:/ ?
>
>That's going to do nasty things for POSIX path parsing.
>
>DJ suggests using /mnt/<drive-letter>. This is probably the best
>suggestion I've heard so far?
>
Yeah, I've never been that intrigued by the //drive syntax, especially since
it contradicts the UNC stuff (although I suppose it could be that I started
on UNIX so I don't like these drive letters too!;-)). I still vote (if we
are!;-)) to ditch this syntax. If we need to support drive letters for
more windows-oriented purists, I think putting the drives somewhere (maybe
as DJ suggested) is a good compromise.
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
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