2010/3/16 Cliff Hones <cl...@hones.org.uk>:
> Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor:
>>> rolandc:
>>>> I have installed cygwin 1.7 in e:\cygwin1.7
>>>> After installation, there is a "strange" directory :
>>>> /E/cygwin1.7/dev/ (posix path)
>>>> E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev (win32 path)
>>>>
>>>> What is the role of this directory?
>>> It is "/dev".
>>
>> /dev would be E:\cygwin1.7\dev, not E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev.
>>
>> Looks like a bug to me, and the finger of blame points at
>> /etc/postinstall/{00,}bash.sh:
>>
>> DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')"
>> mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1
>>
>> I haven't stared at the sed magic long enough to work out exactly what
>> it does or why, but it looks suspiciously like it assumes that Cygwin
>> is installed on the C drive.
>
> This looks to be the same as the following problem:
>
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00944.html
>
> -- Cliff
Indeed,
Also, I think I can delete this folder without problem.
I do not understand why the postinstall script bash.sh is so complex
DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')"
mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1
it would be simple (too simple?) to
mkdir -p /dev || result=1
Regards,
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