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RE: /cygdrive/windows ?


--- Espen Harlinn <espen.harlinn@seamos.no> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 10:50:06PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > >
> > >`cygpath --windir`
> > >
> > >The only time we'd need something like this visible outside a compiled
> > >application is a script, and a script can use cygpath to get the
> > >directory path and store it.  Any compiled program can just call
> > >GetWindowsDirectory() itself.
> >
> > Actually, I was thinking that it would be nice to have this in a tar file:
> >
> > /cygdrive/system/some.dll .
> >
> > This would always extract some.dll to the windows/system directory.
> 
> IMHO: Putting things in windows\system[32] is not a very bright idea,
> keeping the complete cygwin installation in a separate directory is how I
> like it. At various times it has been usefull to have several different
> cygwin installations installed into different directories. If some.dll goes
> into windows\system[32] the requirement for backwards binary compability
> becomes more stringent when changes are made to some.dll. There is also the
> slight problem that some.dll may allready exist on the target system and it
> might just be something quite different from your some.dll i.e. a name
> clash.
> 
> Espen

IMNSHO, I agree with Espen.  Not a good idea at all.

Cheers,

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