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Cygwin startup and root directory.
- From: Daniel Santos <daniel dot santos at pobox dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 01:12:38 -0600
- Subject: Cygwin startup and root directory.
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Hello,
I see that when you copy Cygwin executables (and dlls) to a random
windows machine and run (for example) bash.exe that Cygwin treats the
parent directory as the root, assigns it an 8-byte serial number and
records it in the user registry. Can somebody point me to where the
code is that does this? I presume somewhere under winsup/cygwin?
Also, are there pretty docs somewhere that detail the Cygwin internals,
architecture, etc? It's making me curious...
Thanks!!
Daniel
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