From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20786 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2015 19:43:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 20773 invoked by uid 89); 26 Nov 2015 19:43:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 19:43:26 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id D9283A805F1; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:43:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 20:08:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup Message-ID: <20151126194323.GP2755@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20151125140420.12415@web008.roc2.bluetie.com> <1447966985.20151125232513@yandex.ru> <56562105.5040500@gmail.com> <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21BC3C3B8@msgb09.nih.gov> <20151126134221.GN2755@calimero.vinschen.de> <87ziy03adi.fsf@Rainer.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6Mt39TZj+HFMr11E" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ziy03adi.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00442.txt.bz2 --6Mt39TZj+HFMr11E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 863 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. >=20 > 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? >=20 > Noted, but it might take a while. Thanks, Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --6Mt39TZj+HFMr11E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWV2DbAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gv6MP/jiUUFMJHWesjUTYuTn31ifm 5yC0Pk57c+2xU2X1ZsTX6aCG3WwHcuPzJKfGT91Xi6x18acVIcsh5KUQZM2K9sCJ R2To/3noOPiEn6yHjXOSPr3miy9o7zCWy2qbeGAh568FtNceWV3xsP9x0yIhMyFB QG+u7sp7lpIuRcrKd7AlerJUk3p74lm7Ney/b6qhkSspn2lWUJX2agTdiS0tCzsH 7V4nghkSGZbI3Te5NZma//1PAxWoFj8hNbBWlXrjTwH3JwDHyBFna5bFL/r+8AWR /JfAKicOi6ODSut2TWNCoaypuoQQ4Ne8iQUMB4OSyM/sybRU7of6AOy8h95GKw2N ZLfC9+I6yCJKK4UWAo/SfF6XmZM1mhZdPjc1bvUFV1SsoQA5nT6rI5bvZLT8afhn Ok6vTbpIIJRsKn9tGx4IraY/C+5530+sWjzdN454OZrVGj+LGvpHrrQqOdeDz6XU dmjqHFz0S4cEDw26xMz0UBROaxhv9JL2sY8korBd/oTdBCJfN5f1uwMt1V0RrGzJ QK9/2tLH0t6qjsni5dn1vc2EF4b6LpcAIxZVcm7gQwrXjGnVLbld8P/dixHuCpZQ 7V7PMvvc4dpCIUE6PiPVcfKCZX+5GHS9zwCflNbzyK9LVd8maWmwfubrdJABmY9y ZTX+VdJco4XGtnVOBWqj =Zd0v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6Mt39TZj+HFMr11E--