From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3112 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2014 17:42:21 -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 3002 invoked by uid 89); 11 Dec 2014 17:42:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: etr-usa.com Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:42:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 72127 invoked by uid 13447); 11 Dec 2014 17:42:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO polypore.west.etr-usa.com) ([73.26.17.49]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES128-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Dec 2014 17:42:18 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002 From: Warren Young In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:42:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <4E361236-190B-4740-9C82-D6A49BD94A16@etr-usa.com> References: <5487859D.9000409@alice.it> <20141210160128.GW3810@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00181.txt.bz2 On Dec 10, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Alexey Pavlov wrote: > Also we switch to use real /usr folder and just create virtual mount for = /bin folder that needed for some programs. You=92re fighting the prevailing trend in Unix/Linux OS design by doing tha= t. Solaris, Red Hat, and probably others also alias /usr/bin and /bin, and= /usr/lib and /lib. It isn=92t some weird Cygwin-only practice. The reason for this separation goes back to the days when it made sense to = have separate physical volumes for the OS root and the =93user space=94. N= ow that you can get 64 gigs on a chip the size of your fingernail, this Uni= x design principle is about to follow UUCP into the dustbin of history. -- 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