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Re: /cygdrive/windows ?
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
- Subject: Re: /cygdrive/windows ?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:43:30 -0400
- CC: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000503171211.3492.qmail@web117.yahoomail.com>
> I get it now, sorry. Hmm... How about an internal mapping of /boot for the
> SystemDrive, /boot/windir for the windows path? Since the System and System32
> directories always fall as subdirectories of /boot/windir this wouldn't have to
> be mapped. So, for example, if you have your WINNT system on the C: drive then
> /boot would be mapped to C:/ and /boot/windir would map to C:/WINNT.
If Windows is installed to a shared network drive, windir is local and
sysdir is shared. I think. Otherwise, I can't think of why Win32 has
separate calls for those two directories.