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Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 20:52:04 +0700
From: David Garamond <lists AT zara DOT 6 DOT isreserved DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?
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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


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