On Dec 8 11:06, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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.
So, what's your suggestion? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
