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Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox


On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:48:01PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > There is, of course, a question of how to create such symlinks...  There
> > will have to be some way to pass this information to the symlink()
> > function (which only takes 2 parameters), or create a new function.  We'll
>
> iscygdrive(), defined in path.cc, should be sufficient.
>
> > also need a command-line utility for this (either a new "ln" flag, or a
> > separate program).
>
> Why?  This would work transparently through symlink().
>
> > Well, we could, I guess, but then we should be consistent, e.g., since we
> > have /proc/registry, why not have /proc/windir?  Except that I'm not sure
> > we can mount anything under the /proc subtree...
>
> Naa, let's not use /proc for the kitchen sink.

LOL! My neck is hurting... Sorry. :-)

> Corinna

Elfyn
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