RE: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 4:46 PM
> To: Thomas Binder
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.52.3b
>
>
> > I once implemented a solution where a new mint.cnf variable HIDEGEMDOS
> > (also possible to be influenced via Ssystem()) offered the possibility
> > to completely hide certain drive letters from U:\. Completely means that
> > they /never/ would appear in U:\, i.e. no file attribute was used (but
> > of course, the path remained accessible; i.e. although for example U:\a
> > didn't appear in the output of ls, it was still possible to access
> > U:\a\somefile).
>
> I like that approach.
>


Again this breaks existing code which relies on the fact that all existing
filesystems can be found on the root of u:\.