On Oct 24 20:20, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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.
Thanks, fixed. > > 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. Thanks, I'm glad to read that. > > - /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? No, it's a bug. The internal cygdrive path has a trailing slash, which I have to remove for the symlink. If the cygdrive path is "/", the result is an empty path, which is the same as a self-reference. I fixed that in CVS. > Or what this is supposed to be at all? Shouldn't it be a simple text file > containing current cygdrive prefix? As a symlink, you can use /proc/cygdrive directly as path component in a script. With a text file you couldn't do that. > > - /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. > [...] > 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. mountvol data?!? -v? > > - New API: quotactl, designed after the Linux/BSD function, but severly > severely? I'm no expert, but that's probably the right form. Thanks, fixed. > 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? I wouldn't do that. The layout is checked by existing scripts. I wouldn't want to break that. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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