On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:27:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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.
Except that we're going to be moving away from magical mountpoints now that mknod works. cgf
