Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4049D784.2060808@zara.6.isreserved.com> Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 20:52:04 +0700 From: David Garamond User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp? References: <4049534D.3060406@zara.6.isreserved.com> <40499108.AF81318A@dessent.net> In-Reply-To: <40499108.AF81318A@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Brian Dessent wrote: >>Rather than creating c:\cygwin\tmp, can I make ipc-daemon2 put >>MultiFileMsg* and MultiFileShm* in some other place? > > You know you can mount /tmp to any directory, right? Since you > presumably have a startup script to kick things off, why not just do > something like the following, assuming the current dir is your install > dir: > > mkdir tmp > mount -b "`cygpath -am .`" /tmp > > If you know the full pathname of the directory you can use that instead > of cygpath, i.e. > > mount -b "c:/program files/whatever/tmp" /tmp > > You should probably do this for /bin as well. See the manpage for more. Actually I didn't know about that. I didn't even think mount would work in Cygwin. Cool, thanks! -- dave -- 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/