question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)

[Max Bowsher]

Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:41:14PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Viviana Cotirlea <vcotirlea@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> My question is: Because at one point I would like to distribute the
>>> product to others also, and I don't want to obligate them to install
>>> the cygwin, I would like to know why this string is required, and
>>> if my only solution would be to add that key in the registry if the
>>> cygwin is not already installed on that machine?
>> 
>> Cygwin is just not designed to work in that kind of configuration. 
>> So don't be surprised when things don't work right.
> 
> There is no reaon why just copying the dll and a program shouldn't
> work. The program just has to be aware enough to set its own
> defaults.  Cygwin *is* designed to work fine in such an environment.

Without any mount table at all?

How does it know where / is?

Max.


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