On 03/17/2010 02:19 AM, rolandc wrote: > 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
Yes, it would be too simple. /dev already exists, so the mkdir would fail to do anything useful. We REALLY want to create the underlying Windows directory at the same location at where /dev would be mounted, and to do that, we really do want to know the windows location (drive letter and all) of /. Then, by using mkdir of that fancy windows path that happens to live at the same place as where /dev normally resolves to, then we can guarantee that /dev/stdin gets created as an actual symlink in the windows heirarchy (since it does NOT resolve via the /dev magic mount point), and that tab-completion can see any contents placed into the windows counterpart directory. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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