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Re: Configurable behaviour when remapping cygdrive - please!
- From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda at jaist dot ac dot jp>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 04 Dec 2001 01:13:32 +0900
- Subject: Re: Configurable behaviour when remapping cygdrive - please!
- References: <3C0B9479.8050602@enggaard-lausen.dk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>>> On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 16:04:25 +0100
>>> Rune Enggaard Jensen <rune@enggaard-lausen.dk> said:
> such that all my drives -- including those mapped to network drives --
> were automagically mapped to /c, /d, /w etc.
>
> I therefore suggest that the behaviour is made configurable, e.g. by an
> environment variable, such that the default is the "old" behaviour where
> /cygdrive was not "cd-able". Is that possible and acceptable?
I hope `mount -c /' exceptionally behave the same as the old one.
If we can see all drives on the cygwin root directory, we can't
avoid deleting all files with typing `rm -rf /' on the FAT file
system.
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| AIST Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda@jaist.ac.jp>
| HOKURIKU Center for Information Science
o_/ 1990 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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