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| Date: | Thu, 27 Sep 2018 22:55:20 -0700 |
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| To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net |
| Subject: | Re: Creation of weird WINDOWS-related (sub)directories |
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On 9/25/2018 9:53 AM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: > Am 25.09.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Fergus: > >> Unintentionally I have confounded the discussion. The directory named >> "consoleX" is my home-grown Cygwin root directory. >> (Others' preferred locationname might be "cygwin" or "mycygwin" or >> whatever.) > > That does not explain anything, actually. Cygwin's own root directory > is always '/'. The one you speak of would be the windows-side > installation root directory (c:\cygwin or c:\cygwin64 by default), but > that would never show up like that from inside cygwin. I.e. while you > do have ---- So the root of the cygwin drive is '/', so what would happen if a cygwin program tried to expand a windows path, with a windows variable in it, like '%SystemDrive%'.... Seems to me that whatever that program is, it *IS* running under cygwin and using a windows path with the win-var unexpanded. If I understand correctly, the weird dir is at absolute (from windows C:\) path: C:/consoleX/%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches or, inside cygwin, you see: /%SystemDrive%/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Caches yes? Doesn't matter _that_ much, I'd just work around it by moving it aside and creating a symlink in windows from %SystemDrive% => C:\. Hopefully whatever is creating it won't delete the symlink. If it does, you can retry the command specifying /j to make a windows junction. (in cmd.exe, you should be able to type mklink /h for help). Note, in windows, mklink, the order is mklink <to> <from> (sorta backwards from normal *nix conventions). If you were curious and a bit daring, you could put an empty %systemdrive% directory there instead of the one it was using and make it read-only & set the system attribute. Then whatever is trying to write into it should fail and hopefully you'll see an error message... to set read-only and system with the attrib command try attrib +r +s <filename> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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