From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3923 invoked by alias); 29 Nov 2015 18:23:43 -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 3908 invoked by uid 89); 29 Nov 2015 18:23:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-qg0-f46.google.com Received: from mail-qg0-f46.google.com (HELO mail-qg0-f46.google.com) (209.85.192.46) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:23:41 +0000 Received: by qgec40 with SMTP id c40so103351295qge.2 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:23:39 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.141.6.9 with SMTP id i9mr24891299qhd.68.1448821419483; Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:23:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.9] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c67sm7660173qgd.29.2015.11.29.10.23.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 29 Nov 2015 10:23:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup 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> From: cyg Simple X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <565B42AE.3020705@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:25:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87ziy03adi.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00480.txt.bz2 On 11/26/2015 1:04 PM, 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. > >> Achim, any chance to tweak base-file accordingly? > > Noted, but it might take a while. > That should work. Thanks for listening and working through the problem. -- cyg Simple -- 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