On 12/6/2015 9:28 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: >> No offense, but you didn't understand what I mean, it seems. > > I did, I think -- but read my request again. > >> Don't call cygpath. Just use /proc/cygdrive directly. It's that >> simple. While the cygdrive prefix changes, /proc/cygdrive will >> *never* change. E.g. > > I need cygpath to get the system directory (hint: it need not be in > C:\Windows\System32) and cygpath delivers that directory with the > cygdrive prefix and not /proc/cygpath prepended. I wouldn't mind if all > those special directories would also be available via /proc/<whatever>, > which means I wouldn't even need to fork cygpath for getting there. >
Use the $WINDIR variable to find the Windows path and manipulate its value to prepend /proc/cygdrive/ and suffix its value with /system32. The system32 directory will always be in $WINDIR/sytem32. -- 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
