On 23/08/2021 20:31, L A Walsh wrote: > > On 2021/07/15 01:23, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: >> (By the way, the permission workaround is another good reason for not installing in system root if advice from the authors of Cygwin - Corinna et al - isn't enough for you.) > --- > Except that at one point, most of the cygwin developers installed cygwin at '/'. That you don't know that shows how long you've > been using cygwin.
For the record, I've been using Cygwin for twenty years or more. For that entire period the recommendation has been not to install in C:\ or the root of any other drive. (I've been using UNIX since 1983 by the way and Windows since version 3.0 not that it makes any difference to the discussion.) > I have other reasons for my setup. My windows system has most > of my files on a remote, linux system. Which can be accessed using //host/path (using S4NFS or SMB) or via Cygwin fstab mounts regardless of where Cygwin is installed locally. > When I'm using the linux > shell, for example, I can bring up explorer for the directory I'm > in by typing 'explore [opt. path]'. My Doc dir, among others is the > same on Windows as on Linux ~/Documents or /d/. If I'm running > a prog on linux, and it asks for a browser, it launches my browser > on Windows. You're not using a Linux shell. You're using a POSIX-like shell compiled for Cygwin. It's different. For example '//path' on Cygwin accesses remote filesystems whereas on Linux it doesn't. If you're running a program on Linux it'll launch whatever it is configured to launch. If you're running a Cygwin program it'll do the same, which with appropriate use of cygpath can launch Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) or your browser. For example my EDITOR variable launches Notepad++ and 'git difftool' launches Windows native KDiff3 and they work for any Cygwin path not just my C drive, converting to Windows when assembling the command line to pass to the native applications. I think Andrey covered the rest of your arguments fairly comprehensively. -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
