On Apr 3 20:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Apr 3 13:56, Igor Peshansky wrote:
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
I think what we should do is this. The code creating the mount points
automatically generates the root directory mount entry from the DLL path:
path = GetModuleFileName (cygwin1.dll);
path = snip_away trailing_bin_cygwin1.dll (path);
mount_table->add_item (path, "/", MOUNT_SYSTEM | MOUNT_BINARY, false);
Then, when reading the fstab file, it might contain any standard entry
for the root dir, just like every other entry:
C:\my\alterante\cygwin-root / ntfs text 0 0
How does that sound?
Right. Since the users can shoot themselves in the foot anyway by
overriding /bin and /etc, unless we want to litter the code with special
handling of directories, might as well let them do it at their leisure...
:-)
For testing I applied a patch which creates a default root dir.
Oh, I just figured that I forgot to mention the second part of the
patch (even in the ChangeLog):
The FS type field is used now to recognize the cygdrive prefix. So,
my current local /etc/fstab file looks like this:
$ cat /etc/fstab
# C:\cygwin / ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ntfs binary 0 0
C:\cygwin\home\corinna\textmode-dir /home/corinna/textmode-dir ntfs text 0 0
c:\cygwin\home\corinna\managed /home/corinna/managed ntfs binary,managed 0 0
\\fs01\archiv /home/archiv smbfs binary 0 0
none /mnt cygdrive binary 0 0
Note especially the first entry for the root dir, which is commented out,
and the last entry for the cygdrive prefix.