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Re: Wrong links in /etc


Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
FWIW, my vote goes for making something like /dev/systemroot to map to the Windows system32 directory, rather than making a second cygdrive prefix that never changes.
This isn't up for a vote. There will be no filesystems under /dev as long as I'm associated with Cygwin.

As I stated earlier, I don't see any reason to add more complication to Cygwin's path handling. We can deal with the current problem with a mount point.
I've set cygdrive prefix to /dev for years with no ill effects....
Have you looked behind your computer recently? ;-)
Are you kidding? There's way too many old fast food containers back there! ;-)

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