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Re: Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky
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According to Jerrad Pierce on 8/18/2005 10:37 AM:
> /cygdrive/c should not be invisible objects in the ether, they should live
> on the filesystem like a proper mounted filesystem, allowing them to
> accessible with tab completion.
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'.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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