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Re: POSIX names for drive letters


Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
Hi,

I know that it is kind of late :-), but I would like to suggest an
alternative/additional mapping of drive letters to the MinGW and Cygwin
file-system name space.

The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps
`//./C/').

The reasons for this mapping are:
[snip]

So... why exactly do you need this? The only thing I might actually support here (keeping in mind Eric's comments and CGF's clear agreement with them) would be treating '//./' as a special case of '//127.0.0.1/', at which point '//./C$/' is the UNC mapping of the default 'C$' share on the local machine. But I still fail to see why that is useful.


Or you could change your mount prefix to '/dev/fs', and have '/dev/fs/c', etc, which seems more "natural" and is also what Interix uses (so you have compatibility in case you ever use that POS).

--
Matthew
'$ time make world' -> real 5d:14h:37m:5.291s user 0m:0.000s sys 4d:2h:14m:43.712s



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