From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 58138 invoked by alias); 6 Dec 2015 14:28:25 -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 58125 invoked by uid 89); 6 Dec 2015 14:28:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPAM_URI,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-in-11.arcor-online.net Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (HELO mail-in-11.arcor-online.net) (151.189.21.51) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 14:28:22 +0000 Received: from mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.29]) by mx.arcor.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3pD99b1xhrz32JN for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2015 15:28:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail-in-17.arcor-online.net (mail-in-17.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.57]) by mail-in-12-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9F8CB4F3 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2015 15:28:19 +0100 (CET) X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-17.arcor-online.net 3pD99b0mPpzYG8 Received: from Gertrud (p4FF1C77F.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.241.199.127]) (Authenticated sender: stromeko@arcor.de) by mail-in-17.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3pD99b0mPpzYG8 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 2015 15:28:18 +0100 (CET) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup References: <20151125140420.12415@web008.roc2.bluetie.com> <1447966985.20151125232513@yandex.ru> <56562105.5040500@gmail.com> <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21BC3C3B8@msgb09.nih.gov> <20151126134221.GN2755@calimero.vinschen.de> <87mvtnucw6.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20151206141054.GC17433@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2015 14:28:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20151206141054.GC17433@calimero.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Sun, 6 Dec 2015 15:10:54 +0100") Message-ID: <87egeztzwg.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2015-12/txt/msg00066.txt.bz2 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=C2=A0wouldn't mind if a= ll those special directories would also be available via /proc/, which means I wouldn't even need to fork cygpath for getting there. Regards, Achim. --=20 +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ DIY Stuff: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/DIY.html -- 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