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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:54:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> I think it is needed.  At least the base-files-mketc.sh postinstall
>> script creates paths which point outside the Cygwin root, so it either
>> needs to reference cygdrive paths, or use DOS paths.  Using cygdrives
>> paths is preferable, IMHO.  Since the cygdrive path is not fixed, and
>> can even differ between different users on the same machine, there must
>> be a fixed method to reference these paths.
> 
> If we're pointing outside of the Cygwin root then we can either 1) use a
> mount or (in the current scenario) 2) establish a standard way to access
> the windows directory.  My mild objection is that we're talking about
> modifying the Cygwin DLL to accommodate the Cygwin distribution.  A
> standalone Cygwin program doesn't necessarily need to use /etc/hosts but,
> if we are modifying cygwin1.dll to hard-wire a path, it will nonetheless
> have to suffer the consequences of that decision.
> 
>> Personally I'd rather not further clutter the root directory, which is
>> why /proc seems to me to be a better place to point to the cygdrive
>> paths in a constant fashion.  But that is only a mild opposition.  I'd
>> also go along with /cygdrive.
> 
> We're already cluttering the root one less than linux since modern linuxes
> use /dev, /proc, and /sys.
> 
> Hmm.  /sys/drive/c  has a nice feel to it, although this is YA a case where
> the existence of a filesystem under this directory is not linux-like.

I still like /dev/fs :-), or maybe /sys/fs. Perhaps /sys/fs/os should 
point to %SYSTEMDIR%? (Or /sys/fs/windows, or - except it sounds 
redundant - /sys/fs/sys.)

-- 
Matthew
"I don't question your existence -- God" (seen on a church billboard)


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