Why not mount / at C: ?

Wed Aug 30 05:43:00 GMT 2000

David Starks-Browning wrote:
>> On Thursday 24 Aug 00, Jean-Paul Le Fevre writes:
>>>> Could you confirm that it is just a simple "recommendation" ?
>>>> The FAQ states :
>> "You are strongly urged not to choose something like 'C:\'."
>> As I recall, there had been genuine bugs with certain things not
> working when the Cygwin root was C:\. I believe those are now fixed,
> so perhaps we don't need to word it so strongly.
>
They weren't fixed two weeks ago, believe me!
> There is a danger that some other "Unix-like" application or package
> would also use C:\bin (and so forth), which could mess up your Cygwin
> installation if you didn't take precautions against it.

The screw turns the other way, too. The Win98 X-Server requires to
find "C:/usr," etc. [Because it isn't Cygwin (yet)] So I wind up 
with real nasty path confusion.
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