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 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:56:05 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with an NT Installation Message-ID: <20010305185605.B836@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3AA3B0CE.2384.6FC05C@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3AA3B0CE.2384.6FC05C@localhost>; from pgarceau@qwest.net on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:29:18PM -0800 On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:29:18PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote: >On 5 Mar 2001, at 10:15, the Illustrious Harry Erwin wrote: >> I guess that they try to access /tmp which is on C: drive (check >> your mount table). /tmp must be writable for many programs. > > It should also be readable...as I recall, (and I am open to >corrections on this); cygwin uses the /tmp drive (wherever it is >defined or mounted as) for certain core cygwin processes (I am not >familiar enough with the API to comment on which ones). % cd /cygnus/src/winsup/cygwin % grep /tmp *.cc % The Cygwin DLL does not use /tmp for anything, AFAIK. Bash uses /tmp, though. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple