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On 11/26/2015 1:04 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> The right thing to do is to change the base-files package to utilize
>> /proc/cygdrive.  It's a vrtual symlink pointing to the actual cygdrive
>> prefix currently in use.  If these symlinks under /etc used the
>> /proc/cygdrive symlink, they would work all the time, independenly of
>> the actual cygdrive prefix.
> 
> I was thinking of using a native symlink, but going through the procfs
> seems cleaner.
> 
>> Achim, any chance to tweak base-file accordingly?
> 
> Noted, but it might take a while.
> 

That should work.  Thanks for listening and working through the problem.

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