RE: Updated: cygwin-1.3.6-1 -- changing cygdrive prefix broken?

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 12:14 PM 12/4/2001, Eduardo R Larranaga wrote:
>In the Cygwin User's guide is a suggestion (and an example) to change the
>default prefix with the mount command:
>
>   mount -change-cygdrive-prefix /
>
>It seems that many of us have chosen to go with changing the prefix to /, but
>with the latest version of cygwin 1.3.6-1 this leads to / being unusable.  Being
>able to do an "ls /" and see the contents of C:\ is a very desirable feature.
>
>In the recent announcement of cygwin 1.3.6-1 the following line describes a new
>feature which, I believe, causes this breakage:
>
>   -  Allow use of /cygdrive as a directory.   (Christopher Faylor)
>
>I'd like to ask the Cygwin developers to explain if this is:
>
>   a) being considered a bug that will be fixed, or
>   b) this is a change in cygwin behavior that we'll have to live with, or
>   c) none of the above - the prefix is changed in a different way now


It's worthwhile to check the email list archives before asking these
kinds of questions.  The answers are often there (and certainly are 
there in this case).  It's good practice... and useful too! ;-)



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