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Re: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup
- From: cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 13:23:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup
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On 11/26/2015 1:04 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
>> The right thing to do is to change the base-files package to utilize
>> /proc/cygdrive. It's a vrtual symlink pointing to the actual cygdrive
>> prefix currently in use. If these symlinks under /etc used the
>> /proc/cygdrive symlink, they would work all the time, independenly of
>> the actual cygdrive prefix.
>
> I was thinking of using a native symlink, but going through the procfs
> seems cleaner.
>
>> Achim, any chance to tweak base-file accordingly?
>
> Noted, but it might take a while.
>
That should work. Thanks for listening and working through the problem.
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