Re: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Dec  6 10:47, 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've looked into it and I'd like to give that task back to the cygpath
> maintainer. :-)
> 
> > Achim, any chance to tweak base-file accordingly?
> 
> At the moment I'm using $(/usr/bin/cygpath -S -u) to get the system
> directory.  Since the /cygdrive prefix could be anything, I'd either
> have to first figure it out via $(dirname $(/usr/bin/cygpath -u C:))
> since the output from mount is a bit unwieldy.  Maybe we should just
> force the cygdrive prefix to be /cygdrive for postinstall scripts
> anyway.

No offense, but you didn't understand what I mean, it seems.  Don't call
cygpath.  Just use /proc/cygdrive directly.  It's that simple.  While
the cygdrive prefix changes, /proc/cygdrive will *never* change.  E.g.

Substitute

  $(dirname $(/usr/bin/cygpath -u C:))

with

  /proc/cygdrive/c


Corinna

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