On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, John Morrison wrote: > On Thu, October 12, 2006 12:54 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > I think it is needed. At least the base-files-mketc.sh postinstall > > script creates paths which point outside the Cygwin root, so it either > > needs to reference cygdrive paths, or use DOS paths. Using cygdrives > > paths is preferable, IMHO. Since the cygdrive path is not fixed, and > > can even differ between different users on the same machine, there must > > be a fixed method to reference these paths. > > > > Personally I'd rather not further clutter the root directory, which is > > why /proc seems to me to be a better place to point to the cygdrive > > paths in a constant fashion. But that is only a mild opposition. I'd > > also go along with /cygdrive. > > I've changed the script (which I didn't write!) to use cygpath --sysdir > which outputs cygdrive paths. I should be able to get a new release out > by the weekend, but I'll hold off until this discussion is decided. > Personally I don't mind either an always existing /cygdrive or something > in /proc. Only thing that would ask is; what would cygpath output?
John, I wrote the script originally, and the initial version did use POSIX paths. I've just re-read the early discussions, and found this: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg00033.html>. I think the issue is still valid -- if the installing user has the user-level cygdrive prefix set, "cygpath --sysdir" will output something that won't work for other users on the machine, and the links will be broken. If we add a standard /cygdrive prefix, we'll also need to change cygpath to force that standard prefix for out-of-tree paths (otherwise user and system mounts take precedence). Something like "cygpath -S -s" (or "cygpath --sysdir --standard")... However, if we really want to make this more robust, we'd need something like this: SAVED_CYGDRIVE="`mount -m | grep '^mount -u -[bt] -\?-c'`" mount -u -b -c '/cygdrive' # Do the path manipulation here umount -u -c [ -n "$SAVED_CYGDRIVE" ] && eval "$SAVED_CYGDRIVE" Opinions? Igor P.S. One annoying thing about /cygdrive is that tab-completion for it is annoying OOTB, since there are also /cygwin.bat and /cygwin.ico. One thing I normally do on all new installs is rename those two files to /Cygwin.bat and /Cygwin.ico -- since bash uses case-sensitive completion by default, this allows /c<Tab> to get to /cygdrive immediately. Can we, perhaps, rename the .bat and the .ico files to start with a capital 'C' on new installs? I'll send a patch to cygwin-apps. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
