Re: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup

[cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>]

On 12/6/2015 9:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> No offense, but you didn't understand what I mean, it seems.
> 
> I did, I think -- but read my request again.
> 
>> Don't call cygpath.  Just use /proc/cygdrive directly.  It's that
>> simple.  While the cygdrive prefix changes, /proc/cygdrive will
>> *never* change.  E.g.
> 
> I need cygpath to get the system directory (hint: it need not be in
> C:\Windows\System32) and cygpath delivers that directory with the
> cygdrive prefix and not /proc/cygpath prepended.  I wouldn't mind if all
> those special directories would also be available via /proc/<whatever>,
> which means I wouldn't even need to fork cygpath for getting there.
> 

Use the $WINDIR variable to find the Windows path and manipulate its
value to prepend /proc/cygdrive/ and suffix its value with /system32.
The system32 directory will always be in $WINDIR/sytem32.

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