Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 12:23:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:20:46PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > >I think I recall they have some fixed root level dirs like /windir,
> > >/sysdir, /registry.
> >
> > We could do this in a cygwin post-install script if there is consensus
> > that it would be useful.
>
> That would involve symlinks to a path outside of the Cygwin root again,
> which would be broken when the use changes the cygdrive prefix.
>
> This reminds me, wouldn't it make sense to store the cygdrive prefix
> inside of symlinks in a form which is independent of the actual
> cygdrive prefix string?  I mean, instead of having a
>
>   /cygdrive/d/foo
>
> the symlink could contain something representing
>
>   ${cygdriveprefix}/d/foo
>
> In that case symlinks would still be valid if the user changes the
> prefix or, worse, on a multiuser system where users have different
> user cygdrive prefixes.
>
> Corinna

FWIW, I like this idea.  Either that, or have a hard-coded cygdrive prefix
that's *always* recognized, in addition to the user-changeable one
(although I'd prefer changing the symlinks instead).
	Igor
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