Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:03:05 -0400 To: Keith Starsmeare Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: pwd command output Message-ID: <19991001080305.A905@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Keith Starsmeare , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <19990930163110.22008.rocketmail@web129.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Keith Starsmeare on Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:28:31AM +0100 On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 08:28:31AM +0100, Keith Starsmeare wrote: >On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >> BTW, I'm thinking that the cygdrive text is stored in the registry and could be >> changed to what you want. I can't verify that at this time but you could look >> using RegEdit. The /cygdrive/ was added to change the // due to problems with >> Win32 thinking it was referencing a network drive. It could have just as well >> have been made an error if the drive isn't mounted rather than defaulting to >> anything at all. > >Why have the drives been mapped under "cygdrive" - that's quite a >confusing name as it's referring to the DOS or Window's drives! Why not >mount them on /dev (in the Unix style) instead? Because that is not what /dev is used for on UNIX. For instance, you don't do "ls /dev/a" to get a directory under UNIX. You also don't do something like "cd /dev/fd0" to change your directory there. If you don't like the "/cygdrive" name you can change it. -Chris Faylor -Cygwin Manager -Cygnus Solutions -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com