Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A52027F.891C0345@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 11:31:59 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Prince CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, Robert Collins , gerrit.haase@t-online.de Subject: Re: why not use root as root? References: <3A512238.35C8979@yahoo.com> <002101c07479$660851e0$9865fea9@timayum4srqln4> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Prince wrote: > Maybe I don't understand what you are saying here. I build and test > software routinely on a FAT32 partition, using build environments installed > on either an NTFS or an extfs partition, so I can compare the test results > conveniently. Possibly, you mean that the cygwin drive root installation is > advisable only when installed on the same partition as the OS. I mean, that when a non-Cygwin program looks for /foo then your working directory must be on the disk where /foo resides. Cheers, Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple