On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:15:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >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?
Don't bog cygwin down with more magical "mount points". Other than that, I have no suggestion.
