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Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:41:17AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > Yes, but when you create a symlink, that's exactly what you're doing
> > (storing the result). Or are you suggesting re-creating the symlinks on
> > the fly every time? Can you think of another way of making symlinks
> > mount-independent?
>
> No but AFAICS there should be no need to create a symlink to a file
> installed through setup using the cygdrive prefix. All these files
> are surely inside of the / mount and so all these symlinks should
> always use either the full path from the Cygwin root or (better) a
> relative path.
>
> Corinna
Ah, but what about files that are *outside* of the Cygwin root tree (in
known locations)? Such as the HOSTS file in the windows system directory,
for example?
Igor
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