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Subject: Re: cygwin 1.7: why there is a directory E/cygwin/dev in the tree of  	cygwin ?
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Christopher Faylor:
> rolandc:
>>I have installed cygwin 1.7 in e:\cygwin1.7
>>After installation, there is a "strange" directory :
>> =C2=A0/E/cygwin1.7/dev/ (posix path)
>> =C2=A0E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev (win32 path)
>>
>>What is the role of this directory?
>
> It is "/dev".

/dev would be E:\cygwin1.7\dev, not E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev.

Looks like a bug to me, and the finger of blame points at
/etc/postinstall/{00,}bash.sh:

DEVDIR=3D"$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|=
')"
mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=3D1

I haven't stared at the sed magic long enough to work out exactly what
it does or why, but it looks suspiciously like it assumes that Cygwin
is installed on the C drive.

Andy

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