On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 08:34:18AM -0000, Morrison, John wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 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. > >Would you mind tell me how to use mknod to replicate the /cygdrive/ >functionality?
You can't, currently. cgf
