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To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
From: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.com>
Subject: Cygwin startup and root directory.
Message-ID: <c843e6cd-7ce3-1b44-0d28-73f043897f72@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 01:12:38 -0600
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Hello,

I see that when you copy Cygwin executables (and dlls) to a random
windows machine and run (for example) bash.exe that Cygwin treats the
parent directory as the root, assigns it an 8-byte serial number and
records it in the user registry.  Can somebody point me to where the
code is that does this?  I presume somewhere under winsup/cygwin?

Also, are there pretty docs somewhere that detail the Cygwin internals,
architecture, etc?  It's making me curious...

Thanks!!
Daniel

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