This is the mail archive of the cygwin-apps@cygwin.com mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: base-files-mketc.sh


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Perhaps, instead of making
> a whole bunch of new controls in one propsheet, we should have an
> "Advanced..." button that would pop up a dialog with all the extra
> options...  What do people think?

> IMHO, changing the cygdrive prefix is an advanced user action, and the
> user doing it should be aware of the consequences.  One of them being
> that she has to check all the symlinks to make sure they aren't broken
> anymore.

Which means that if setup offers a nice easy way to do it, setup will have
to assume the resposibility of doing the fixups. Not really feasible. I
don't think this is a good thing for setup.





> If I understand the (new style) symlink implementation correctly,
> both the POSIX path and the Windows path are needed in the
> corresponding shortcut.

No, I have succesfully tested symlinks to the Windows hosts file in mixed
and win32 formats:

$ ln -s C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts hosts2
$ ln -s C:/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts hosts2

Both produce a valid symlink - which gives us an easy way out of this
problem.



Max.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]