Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST > prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet. > Rather have a look at
> https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html "via an undocumented APIr " should be "... API, " probably. > If you read it > (which I seriously hope for) and it's all just incomprehensible > gobbledygook to you, please say so on the mailing list > cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > so we have a chance to improve the documentation. I'm in the process of reading it. Goes slowly, but that's due to my head condition. It really a very good read, thank you. > - /proc/cygdrive is a new symlink pointing to the current cygdrive prefix. > This can be utilized in scripts to access paths via cygdrive prefix, even > if the cygdrive prefix has been changed by the user. Hm. The prefix currently set to just "/". $ ls -l /proc/cygdrive lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 0 Oct 24 20:17 /proc/cygdrive -> /proc/cygdrive $ ls -l /proc/cygdrive/ ls: cannot access /proc/cygdrive/: Not a directory Is this... normal? Or what this is supposed to be at all? Shouldn't it be a simple text file containing current cygdrive prefix? > - /proc/partitions now prints the windows mount points the device is mounted > on. This allows to recognize the underlying Windows devices of the Cygwin > raw device names. $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name win-mounts 8 0 78150744 sda 8 1 78149688 sda1 C:\dev\sdb1\ 8 16 78150744 sdb 8 17 102400 sdb1 8 18 131072 sdb2 8 19 77916160 sdb3 C:\ 8 32 488386584 sdc 8 33 486615520 sdc1 C:\dev\sdb1\dev\sdc1\ C:\dev\sdb1\d\ C:\dev\sdc1\ 8 48 312571224 sdd 8 49 312568641 sdd1 C:\dev\sdb1\dev\sdd1\ C:\dev\sdd1\ 8 64 0 sde 8 80 0 sdf 8 96 0 sdg 8 112 0 sdh I approve of this product and/or service. I would use a mountvol data around here somewhere, too. But it's useful as it is already. > - New API: quotactl, designed after the Linux/BSD function, but severly severely? I'm no expert, but that's probably the right form. A slightly unrelated request, but... I just had an issue I could prevent if applying brain to hands, but... would it be a feasible request to make the output of 'uname -r' suitable for naming a file? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 24.10.2014, <19:51> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
