On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: > I didn’t want to derail the discussion about the future of /home with this, > so I’m starting a new thread. > > I think it would be an improvement to Cygwin if c:\cygwin contained only > things that can be reinstalled from your local setup.exe download cache, in > the same way that you can nuke "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office $version” > and reinstall without losing anything you created locally. >
What local changes/installations get lost? > Further design principles follow from this: > > - User data should live in directories that those users are normally allowed > to write to. > > - Per-machine software and per-machine configuration should be in directories > that local Administrators can normally write to. > > - Software built from source (/usr/local) should not be in c:\cygwin; it is > per-machine configuration, and so should be elsewhere. > > - If you tighten down what remains so that normal users only get read > permission, it should continue to function, in the same way that normal users > on a Linux box don’t need write access to, say, /usr/include. > > > This /etc/fstab addition mostly accomplishes that: > > > c:/Users/Public/Cygwin/var /var ntfs auto 0 0 > c:/Users/Public/Cygwin/usr/local /usr/local ntfs auto 0 0 > > c:/Users/Public/Cygwin/tmp /tmp ntfs notexec 0 0 > c:/Users/Public/Cygwin/tmp /usr/tmp ntfs notexec 0 0 > c:/Users/Public/Cygwin/tmp /var/tmp ntfs notexec 0 0 > > > I propose that this or something like it be added to the default fstab. > Please NO not by default or offering an option. A back end tool maybe in cygutils that can be run manually. -- cyg Simple -- 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
