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Re: More: [1.7] packaging problem? Both /usr/bin/ and /usr/lib/ are non-empty
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 5 18:41, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> I would make / permanent; i.e. unchangeable by the user. Any mounts in
>> /etc/fstab to / are just discarded. For MSYS the root / is always the
>> parent directory of the directory containing the dll and the directory
>> containing the dll is always /bin.
>
> Hmm, that's an idea. We never fixed root before but there is a certain
> dumbness to the idea to change / (and /usr/bin) away from the place
> where the Cygwin DLL resides.
>
> I'd rather like to hear other opinions before doing that, though.
Just one question: how will this interact with chroot()?
cheers,
DaveK