From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31056 invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2014 18:20:37 -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 31039 invoked by uid 89); 11 Dec 2014 18:20:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wg0-f47.google.com Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-wg0-f47.google.com) (74.125.82.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:20:34 +0000 Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id n12so7106677wgh.6 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:20:31 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.181.27.135 with SMTP id jg7mr415042wid.56.1418322030259; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:20:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.217.128.13 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:20:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4E361236-190B-4740-9C82-D6A49BD94A16@etr-usa.com> References: <5487859D.9000409@alice.it> <20141210160128.GW3810@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E361236-190B-4740-9C82-D6A49BD94A16@etr-usa.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-002 From: Ray Donnelly To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-12/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Warren Young wrote: > 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=E2=80=99re fighting the prevailing trend in Unix/Linux OS design by d= oing that. Solaris, Red Hat, and probably others also alias /usr/bin and /= bin, and /usr/lib and /lib. It isn=E2=80=99t some weird Cygwin-only practi= ce. > We're sticking as close as we can to real Linux. =46rom my Arch Linux installation: ls -l / drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Oct 31 12:12 usr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 25 19:41 bin -> usr/bin .. so Linux has a real /usr folder like we do, and they use symlinks for /bin and /lib. Since symlinks on Windows aren't always possible we opted to use mounts instead. > The reason for this separation goes back to the days when it made sense t= o have separate physical volumes for the OS root and the =E2=80=9Cuser spac= e=E2=80=9D. Now that you can get 64 gigs on a chip the size of your finger= nail, this Unix design principle is about to follow UUCP into the dustbin o= f 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 > -- 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