Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 26 20:08:00 GMT 2015


On Nov 26 19:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > The right thing to do is to change the base-files package to utilize
> > /proc/cygdrive.  It's a vrtual symlink pointing to the actual cygdrive
> > prefix currently in use.  If these symlinks under /etc used the
> > /proc/cygdrive symlink, they would work all the time, independenly of
> > the actual cygdrive prefix.
> 
> I was thinking of using a native symlink, but going through the procfs
> seems cleaner.

Native symlinks are no safe bet since they require special permissions.
Won't work when running setup as non-admin user.

> > Achim, any chance to tweak base-file accordingly?
> 
> Noted, but it might take a while.


Thanks,
Corinna

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