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Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:10:25PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >There may not be a C: drive, but "cygpath -u c:" will do the right thing
> >-- try it with a drive you don't have.
>
> mount -f c: /willthisthreadeverdie
> cygpath -u c:
> /willthisthreadeverdie
Yes, yes, I'm aware that if you explicitly mount a drive, you'll have that
mount point instead of /cygdrive (that's what I meant by "special mounts"
in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00679.html>). I was making a
point that even if the drive doesn't exist, cygpath will convert it to a
/cygdrive form, e.g.,
$ mount -c /idontthinkitwilleverdie
$ ls q:
ls: q:: No such file or directory
$ cygpath -u q:
/idontthinkitwilleverdie/q
Igor
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