Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39AD014D.5A60EA03@home.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:42:53 -0400 From: "David A. Cobb" Organization: @home user X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,ru,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Starks-Browning , Cygwin List Subject: Re: Why not mount / at C: ? References: <20000824115435.26205.qmail@web108.yahoomail.com> <200008241243.OAA00184@dphdse.saclay.cea.fr> <716-Thu24Aug2000153328+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Starks-Browning wrote: > > On Thursday 24 Aug 00, Jean-Paul Le Fevre writes: >> >> Could you confirm that it is just a simple "recommendation" ? >> >> The FAQ states : >> "You are strongly urged not to choose something like 'C:\'." > > As I recall, there had been genuine bugs with certain things not > working when the Cygwin root was C:\. I believe those are now fixed, > so perhaps we don't need to word it so strongly. > They weren't fixed two weeks ago, believe me! > There is a danger that some other "Unix-like" application or package > would also use C:\bin (and so forth), which could mess up your Cygwin > installation if you didn't take precautions against it. The screw turns the other way, too. The Win98 X-Server requires to find "C:/usr," etc. [Because it isn't Cygwin (yet)] So I wind up with real nasty path confusion. -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "Don't buy or use crappy software" "By the grace of God I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner" -- The Way of a Pilgrim [R. M. French, tr.] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com