From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25271 invoked by alias); 9 Dec 2019 07:17:11 -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 25252 invoked by uid 9078); 9 Dec 2019 07:17:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 25245 invoked by uid 89); 9 Dec 2019 07:17:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=HTo:U*corinna-cygwin, H*M:pobox, H*MI:pobox, HX-Languages-Length:521 X-HELO: pb-smtp2.pobox.com Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (HELO pb-smtp2.pobox.com) (64.147.108.71) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Dec 2019 07:17:09 +0000 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3D223995F; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 02:17:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from daniel.santos@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:from :subject:message-id:date:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=ICAOPCYBdmMc5UI3l2wo4YX+V J4=; b=bmDaV+B13mBFa8pvPannhss6zPE/ABV88ulHBu6desWcfASgvgy1hc410 BZYyfzyn3qFxjDIxi3ZhJZ4S4tZbKHNic+slLOPEJcH7UxJye93aWffItTSCmViL 5gC3XbN79pP9Z5/kd7QYZ88sRKaLoF2ikC6b1AXj20l4eTflqg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:from:subject :message-id:date:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=CoijkBrMlLii7y4+ar6 GMOJhDInoHOt6ag4CLpIlDUsoJWr+jKqQ05y+XSWBaHvfUigZs1wjYLkSKWjrTi5 2j7f0OQnX34K83lXGx437egOaqWHw1Ep5CpG6ld7HSxc3xKmGBSJOu8cuNJ7N0+A AVzU8PtY0jXcsEBZYXnKLkOk= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A3E3995D; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 02:17:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from daniel.santos@pobox.com) Received: from [192.168.0.8] (unknown [76.85.7.46]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B4D643995B; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 02:17:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from daniel.santos@pobox.com) To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Corinna Vinschen From: Daniel Santos Subject: Cygwin startup and root directory. Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:17:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E79A2964-1A53-11EA-B91B-D1361DBA3BAF-06139138!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-12/txt/msg00051.txt.bz2 Message-ID: <20191209091700.sNG4QnfkG45BbkGJKz7eg7poHhqOhaVTiGnNKhQnfYs@z> Hello, I see that when you copy Cygwin executables (and dlls) to a random windows machine and run (for example) bash.exe that Cygwin treats the parent directory as the root, assigns it an 8-byte serial number and records it in the user registry.=C2=A0 Can somebody point me to where the code is that does this?=C2=A0 I presume somewhere under winsup/cygwin? Also, are there pretty docs somewhere that detail the Cygwin internals, architecture, etc?=C2=A0 It's making me curious... Thanks!! Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple