Re: Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky

[Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>]

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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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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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