From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15706 invoked by alias); 18 Sep 2009 02:39:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 15698 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Sep 2009 02:39:27 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-98-110-183-151.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (98.110.183.151) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:39:23 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1645213C0C4 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:39:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 180CD2B352; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:39:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:39:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygdrive prefix Message-ID: <20090918023914.GD12511@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4AB10F3F.6070107@gmail.com> <806a89db0909170932v40e73189t9c5a3be4330bd821@mail.gmail.com> <4AB285AB.8030008@cygwin.com> <4AB2D388.2040103@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AB2D388.2040103@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00434.txt.bz2 On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 06:25:44PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 9/17/2009 12:53 PM: >> While I'm not suggesting that people should reassign their "cygdrive" >> prefix >> to "/", I think the problem you saw in your case is a result of having set >> CVS up when your setting was still "cygdrive" and the disconnect you get >> now that it isn't. So I believe you'd see the same problem no matter what >> you changed "cygdrive" to. Obviously, as you point out, symbolic links are >> a good alternative in this case. > >Including 'ln -s / /cygdrive' after changing your mount point, so that /c >and /cygdrive/c still refer to the same place. Haven't we already looped several times in this discussion? I don't think there is any new information that needs to be imparted. Can we close this down now? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple