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Subject: Re: [1.7] Alternative root directory. Sort of a regression.
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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

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