On Dec 8 14:14, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Good idea, except that I'd personally prefer a mount point in stead of a > symlink but that's just personal preference.. (Personally, I'd prefer that > the Cygwin DLL make /WINDOWS a "magical" mountpoint to the likeness of > /dev, /proc, etc. so as to make it completely transparent and make sure no > user can "accidentally" remove the symlink, so as to make sure that the > programs can actually rely on it being there and on it to behave as a "normal" > directory..)
Yes, that's a good idea, too. And it also would remove a potential security problem if anybody could redirect the /WINDOWS link to some tainted directory. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
