On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:51:29PM -0500, Mack, Daemian wrote: >Hi all. I'm using Wise Installer to package and script an upgrade utility >for Windows machines. As part of this package, I'm using Cygwin's bash.exe, >rsync.exe, and the latest cygwin1.dll. At the moment, I'm just copying >these three files to the hard disk on the target machine, then launching a >bash.exe process with various arguments to rsync.exe to perform an rsync >over the net. > >I've heard that the way I'm doing it might not be correct, mostly because >the full setup of Cygwin provides registry entries concerning mount points, >so that, for instance, the directive /cygdrive/c/windows/desktop means >something to Cygwin utilities.
Cygwin doesn't need to use the registry. It only does so when there are actual entries. It isn't required to have a root directory or a /bin directory, etc. The registry entries are either written by setup.exe or mount.exe but neither is required. >But what I'm finding with my testing is that every time I run bash.exe on a >machine with no other Cygwin install, these registry entries are created >dynamically. I suspect cygwin1.dll is doing this when it's called by >bash.exe. If you're seeing this then you're running an older version of cygwin. It's possible that some of the registry "directories" might be created but there should be no actual data. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
