Re: Cygwin startup and root directory.

2019-12-11 Thread Daniel Santos
Thank you Corinna!  And sorry for the delayed response. Maybe this is something I can put on my TODO "wish list" -- going through the Cygwin docs, learning the internals a bit better and maybe adding to them.  It's always nice to have a nice doc explaining the high-level architecture and then othe

Re: Cygwin startup and root directory.

2019-12-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 9 01:12, Daniel Santos wrote: > Hello, > > I see that when you copy Cygwin executables (and dlls) to a random > windows machine and run (for example) bash.exe that Cygwin treats the > parent directory as the root, assigns it an 8-byte serial number and > records it in the user registry.  C

Cygwin startup and root directory.

2019-12-08 Thread Daniel Santos
Hello, I see that when you copy Cygwin executables (and dlls) to a random windows machine and run (for example) bash.exe that Cygwin treats the parent directory as the root, assigns it an 8-byte serial number and records it in the user registry.  Can somebody point me to where the code is that doe