X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:42:53 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] Alternative root directory. Sort of a regression. Message-ID: <20090727104253.GA18621@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A6C347D.2010404@shaddybaddah.name> <416096c60907270157l6f8fe287pfddac957fb03207d@mail.gmail.com> <20090727091124.GY18621@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60907270311u7f132f9ehb2ff0f72021188e5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <416096c60907270311u7f132f9ehb2ff0f72021188e5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jul 27 11:11, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2009/7/27 Corinna Vinschen: > > that rootdir is only used by setup.exe, not by Cygwin. > > I see, sorry. So I guess / simply is the parent of the directory > cygwin1.dll is in? Makes plenty of sense. That's the idea and the reason we don't write a / entry to /etc/fstab at all anymore. The default mount point setup, without having to write anything to /etc/fstab is this: - Check for Cygwin DLL path, for instance C:/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll. - Strip DLL name and parent dir --> C:/cygwin - Create default mount points from here: C:/cygwin / whatever binary,auto 0 0 C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin whatever binary,auto 0 0 C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib whatever binary,auto 0 0 Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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