From: "Hans-Bernhard Bröker" <HBBroeker@t-online.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac423f75-7d9a-d5b8-6bf7-b7ef4b7d9fe3@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000301d454e2$c5102a20$4f307e60$@bonhard.uklinux.net>
Am 25.09.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Fergus:
> Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named
> "consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory.
> (Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or
> whatever.)
That does not explain anything, actually. Cygwin's own root directory
is always '/'. The one you speak of would be the windows-side
installation root directory (c:\cygwin or c:\cygwin64 by default), but
that would never show up like that from inside cygwin. I.e. while you
do have
c:\consoleX\bin
that will not show up as
/consoleX/bin
but rather as
/bin
or
/cygdrive/c/consoleX/bin
> The directory %SystemDrive% occurs at the root of the Cygwin filesystem.
> I cannot work out what activity has triggered it .. ..
A look at the creation time of the directory might provide insightful.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-25 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-25 15:16 Fergus
2018-09-25 15:33 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-09-25 15:35 ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-25 16:53 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker [this message]
2018-09-28 5:55 ` L A Walsh
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2018-09-25 14:05 Fergus
2018-09-25 14:43 ` Marco Atzeri
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