On Dec 9 01:12, Daniel Santos wrote: > Hello, > > I see that when you copy Cygwin executables (and dlls) to a random > windows machine and run (for example) bash.exe that Cygwin treats the > parent directory as the root, assigns it an 8-byte serial number and > records it in the user registry. Can somebody point me to where the > code is that does this? I presume somewhere under winsup/cygwin?
winsup/cygwin/cygheap.cc, method init_cygheap::init_installation_root() > Also, are there pretty docs somewhere that detail the Cygwin internals, > architecture, etc? It's making me curious... The internals are not overly well documented. There are a few how* txt files in winsup/cygwin but they are old and partially outdated. I try to write extensive git commit messages and inline comments whenever I change stuff and also try to convince other contributors to do that, too. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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