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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'Earnie Boyd'" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>,
        Jean-Paul Le Fevre
	 <J-P DOT LeFevre AT cea DOT fr>,
        cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: Why not mount / at C: ?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:36:52 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:55 PM
> To: Jean-Paul Le Fevre; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Re: Why not mount / at C: ?
> 
> 
	<skipped>
> 
> I'm beginning to think that it would be best to not support 
> unmounted drives in
> the Cygwin environment.  It gets far to confusing and there 
> are solutions
> around not having the support.  Saying this, IMO, we should 
> deprecate the
> unmounted drives support.  What do you think?
> 

No, please :-)

Currently the naming scheme allows simple conversion from posix paths to NT
paths with almost no cost: its simply transliteration (that's why I like so
much the //X/path stuff, but I can live with /cygdrive/X/path as I only have
to read the registry once at program startup to get the -- changeable --
string to use as 'cygdrive').

Suppressing the support for unmounted drives would need to search the mount
table for each such transliteration; as I'm using a lot of non-cygwin
programs I write from cygwin that would force me to manually handle the
cygwin mount table in these cases ;-(

Regards,

	Bernard

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