On Oct 12 08:09, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:54:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I think it is needed. At least the base-files-mketc.sh postinstall > >script creates paths which point outside the Cygwin root, so it either > >needs to reference cygdrive paths, or use DOS paths. Using cygdrives > >paths is preferable, IMHO. Since the cygdrive path is not fixed, and > >can even differ between different users on the same machine, there must > >be a fixed method to reference these paths. > > [...] > establish a standard way to access the windows directory
Yes, that's something which annoys me rather often. I'm usually creating a symlink to /mnt/c/WINDOWS directory in / (which nicely contradicts my statement about cluttering the root dir...), but that requires the cygdrive directory to stay /mnt. It would be a rather good idea, IMHO, to have a constant POSIX path pointing to the system directory and, maybe, even to the "Ducuments and Setting" directory. > >Personally I'd rather not further clutter the root directory, which is Yes, yes, I said that. > We're already cluttering the root one less than linux since modern linuxes > use /dev, /proc, and /sys. > > Hmm. /sys/drive/c has a nice feel to it, although this is YA a case where > the existence of a filesystem under this directory is not linux-like. There's a precedent for valid paths in /proc, though. Think of the virtual symlinks in /proc/<pid> like "cmd", "exe", "root". Why not use another part of /proc for a similar purpose. There's also /proc/registry which comes to mind as a vaguely similar approach. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
