From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Device names in /proc/mounts
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110727111904.GC30670@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110727094051.GA28312@calimero.vinschen.de>
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:40:51AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Jul 27 10:35, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
>>>From: Corinna Vinschen On Jul 25 14:29, Schwarz, Konrad wrote:
>>>>There seems no way of mapping device names (resp. Win32 Device
>>>>Namespace names) to mount points --
>>>
>>>Cygwin mount pounts are not mapping disk devices to POSIX pathnames,
>>>but Win32 pathnames to POSIX pathnames.
>>
>>That is incompatibile with Linux's /proc/mount and mount(8).
>
>Yes. Cygwin is *not* an operating system. It does not mount devices.
>That's the task of the NT kernel as in
>
>"\??\C:" ==> "\Device\HarddiskVolume2".
>
>Cygwin mount points are mapping from a POSIX to a Win32 path, nothing
>else. That's how it is defined.
And that is how it has operated (and has been documented to operate)
for, oh I don't know, fifteen+ years or so? It's not going to change.
cgf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-25 12:30 Schwarz, Konrad
2011-07-25 14:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-07-27 8:15 ` Schwarz, Konrad
2011-07-27 8:35 ` Schwarz, Konrad
2011-07-27 9:41 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-07-27 11:19 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2011-07-28 8:18 ` Schwarz, Konrad
2011-07-28 11:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-07-29 7:46 ` Schwarz, Konrad
2011-07-29 9:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-07-29 13:34 ` Schwarz, Konrad
2011-07-29 20:16 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-07-30 4:53 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-07-30 8:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-08-01 13:10 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2011-08-01 13:22 ` Christopher Faylor
2011-08-06 23:53 ` pb w/ cygpath -w /dev/sdXY (was Re: Device names in /proc/mounts) Cyrille Lefevre
2011-08-07 11:38 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-09-13 16:27 ` associating volume labels with drive letters Nellis, Kenneth
2012-09-26 6:22 ` Mark O'Keefe
2012-09-26 13:43 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2012-10-19 18:45 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2012-10-19 18:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-07-29 21:28 ` Device names in /proc/mounts Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2011-07-25 15:07 ` Christopher Faylor
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