From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 128225 invoked by alias); 25 Sep 2018 16:53:23 -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 128214 invoked by uid 89); 25 Sep 2018 16:53:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*t-online.de, H*r:encrypted, speak, H*r:sk:mailout X-HELO: mailout09.t-online.de Received: from mailout09.t-online.de (HELO mailout09.t-online.de) (194.25.134.84) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:53:21 +0000 Received: from fwd18.aul.t-online.de (fwd18.aul.t-online.de [172.20.26.244]) by mailout09.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id AA630423544C for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:53:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.178.24] (rCfILcZBwhXFq8A0Te-9yRcvkxSikKKWQC7QxM7rPswZ56jXD+TS0kjXFCb+JwsgWa@[87.154.37.140]) by fwd18.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) esmtp id 1g4qaH-2ruMoy0; Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:53:13 +0200 Subject: Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <000301d454e2$c5102a20$4f307e60$@bonhard.uklinux.net> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Hans-Bernhard_Br=c3=b6ker?= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 16:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000301d454e2$c5102a20$4f307e60$@bonhard.uklinux.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00250.txt.bz2 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. -- 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