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Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 08:14:38PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:00:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> mount `cygpath --windows` /windows
>
>Gosh, I'm still used to think "symlink" when we also could do a mount.
>
>However, what about the symlink using symbolic cygdrive prefix idea?
I dunno.
I guess we do need to do something now that a: is no longer unique. On
the cgf-dev branch, I use symlinks like :foo: to indicate device nodes which,
argh, now are problematic.
The problem with using anything like ${foo} or, now, :foo: is that those
are valid filenames.
cgf