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Re: Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: Jerrad Pierce <jpierce at PLANT dot MIT dot EDU>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:33:34 -0600
- Subject: Re: Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky
- References: <568F0AEE7A57D511923900508B5564510AA9E7D4@plantnt.facilities.ms.mit.edu>
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[http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE]
[http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted accordingly]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebb9 <AT> byu.net]
^^^^
[http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR]
> It's a general problem with all mount points. If there is no file or
> directory by the same name as the mount point, then cygwin's readdir()
> will not see it (and that is what tab-completion relies on). The solution
> is to create a directory with the same name as the mount-point: 'mkdir
> /cygdrive'.
According to Jerrad Pierce on 8/19/2005 6:26 AM:
> Okay, but why isn't that done on install? (Let alone the logic behind
> non-standardization)
> I had ended up making a /mnt and setting cydrive prefix to that
Because no one has contributed a patch to make it that way?
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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