From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151126194323.GP2755@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ziy03adi.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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On Nov 26 19:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > The right thing to do is to change the base-files package to utilize
> > /proc/cygdrive. It's a vrtual symlink pointing to the actual cygdrive
> > prefix currently in use. If these symlinks under /etc used the
> > /proc/cygdrive symlink, they would work all the time, independenly of
> > the actual cygdrive prefix.
>
> I was thinking of using a native symlink, but going through the procfs
> seems cleaner.
Native symlinks are no safe bet since they require special permissions.
Won't work when running setup as non-admin user.
> > Achim, any chance to tweak base-file accordingly?
>
> Noted, but it might take a while.
Thanks,
Corinna
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-26 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-25 19:06 Charlie
2015-11-25 20:35 ` Andrey Repin
2015-11-25 21:01 ` cyg Simple
2015-11-25 22:44 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2015-11-26 13:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-26 18:06 ` Achim Gratz
2015-11-26 20:08 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2015-11-29 18:25 ` cyg Simple
2015-11-29 20:15 ` cyg Simple
2015-12-06 9:47 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-06 14:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-12-06 14:28 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-06 17:01 ` cyg Simple
2015-12-06 17:16 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-06 17:12 ` Achim Gratz
2015-12-06 19:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-12-06 19:07 ` Achim Gratz
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2015-11-25 16:24 cyg Simple
2015-11-25 16:50 ` Eliot Moss
2015-11-25 17:39 ` Andrey Repin
2015-11-25 19:17 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2015-11-25 18:51 ` Roger Wells
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