1.7] Can you have multipe cygdrive path prefixes active at once

Sun Nov 8 08:07:00 GMT 2009

On 11/06/2009 06:16 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> On 11/06/2009 05:35 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
>>> Thrall, Bryan wrote:
>>>> Jeremy Bopp wrote on Friday, November 06, 2009 3:31 PM:
>>>>> Well, it's a bit of a hack, but you could try something like the
>>>> following:
>>>>> $ dirname $(cygpath -u C:/)
>>>>>>>>>> This assumes that there is always a C: drive and converts the path to
>>>>> the root of that drive into a POSIX path which will include the
>>>> cygdrive
>>>>> prefix. Then dirname is used to effectively chop off the drive letter
>>>>> leaving you with the cygdrive prefix.
>>>>>>>> Actually:
>>>>>>>> $ ls /cygdrive
>>>> c e f h j p t z
>>>> $ cygpath -u x:/
>>>> /cygdrive/x
>>>>>>>> Seems like you aren't assuming the drive exists :)
>>>>>> That's pretty sweet, but that feature seems to be fairly fortuitous
>>> rather than by design. Maybe someone could speak on this point with
>>> more authority.
>>>> If you need to know what the cygdrive prefix is, you're much better off
>> asking 'mount' directly. I know it's a little more parsing but getting it
>> directly rather than trying back doors is far more reliable.
>> The concern posed by the instigator of this thread is that it can't be
> known from the output of "mount -p" whether or not the spaces which
> follow the listed cygdrive prefix are part of the prefix or padding for
> the outputted columns. It should be pretty rare that someone
> intentionally uses trailing spaces in their cygdrive prefix, but I can
> understand the desire for robustness.
>> I suppose parsing the output of "mount -m" could yield a definitive
> result, but there the risk is that the output could change subtly and
> break simple parsing.

Yeah, that's one way. Still some parsing going on there but I agree that's
better and is certainly more direct. I was going to suggest skipping all that
and instead just using "mount -m >somefile; mount -c /foo; script;
cp somefile /etc/fstab; mount -a" but that doesn't seem to work for me right
now. Perhaps you're better off abandoning work-arounds and instead just
submitting a patch to 'mount' that provides a solution that's easy to work with.
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