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RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters
- From: "Schwarz, Konrad" <konrad dot schwarz at siemens dot com>
- To: "MSYS Discussion List" <mingw-msys at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:39:48 +0200
- Subject: RE: [Mingw-msys] POSIX names for drive letters
> > > The proposed mapping for directory `C:\' is `//./C$/' (or perhaps
> > > `//./C/').
>
> > So... why exactly do you need this? The only thing I might actually
> > support here (keeping in mind Eric's comments and CGF's clear
> > agreement with them) would be treating '//./' as a special case of
> > '//127.0.0.1/', at which point '//./C$/' is the UNC mapping of the
> > default 'C$' share on the local machine. But I still fail
> to see why
> > that is useful.
For the record, the //127.0.0.1/C$ solution is probably good enough for
me. I therefore retract my proposal.
By the way, any idea why //localhost/C$ doesn't work?
Also, someone called Interix a POS, which I can't find on
http://cygwin.com/acronyms, but I guess is derogatory (I originally
though "POsix Simulation" or something, to tell the truth). Is there a
list of reasons of the drawbacks of Interix somewhere?
Regards,
Konrad Schwarz
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