Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Dec 6 19:02:00 GMT 2015
On Dec 6 15:28, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > No offense, but you didn't understand what I mean, it seems.
>
> I did, I think -- but read my request again.
>
> > Don't call cygpath. Just use /proc/cygdrive directly. It's that
> > simple. While the cygdrive prefix changes, /proc/cygdrive will
> > *never* change. E.g.
>
> I need cygpath to get the system directory (hint: it need not be in
> C:\Windows\System32) and cygpath delivers that directory with the
> cygdrive prefix and not /proc/cygpath prepended. I wouldn't mind if all
> those special directories would also be available via /proc/<whatever>,
> which means I wouldn't even need to fork cygpath for getting there.
Does https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html help?
Corinna
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