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On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>FWIW, my vote goes for making something like /dev/systemroot to map to
>the Windows system32 directory, rather than making a second cygdrive
>prefix that never changes.

This isn't up for a vote.  There will be no filesystems under /dev as
long as I'm associated with Cygwin.

As I stated earlier, I don't see any reason to add more complication to
Cygwin's path handling.  We can deal with the current problem with a
mount point.

cgf

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