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Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)

From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:21:11 -0500
Subject: Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)
References: <F4SxzW234xOjIL2jpWk000007be@hotmail.com> <015f01c2873d$45496d30$78d96f83@pomello> <20021108165415.GB28207@redhat.com> <018b01c28749$117fdd70$78d96f83@pomello>
Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:05:41PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com> wrote:
>>There is no reaon why just copying the dll and a program shouldn't
>>work.  The program just has to be aware enough to set its own defaults.
>>Cygwin *is* designed to work fine in such an environment.
>
>Without any mount table at all?

Yes.

>How does it know where / is?

There isn't one.  You have to reference everything via /cygdrive.

cgf

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References:
- question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)
  - From: Viviana Cotirlea
- Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)
  - From: Max Bowsher
- Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)
  - From: Christopher Faylor
- Re: question about cygdrive flags string in the registry (Win 2000)
  - From: Max Bowsher

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