Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2000/05/03/13:42:20
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:43:30PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>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.
I've always thought that it was because the "system directory" on Windows NT
is "system32" and on Windows 95 it's "system".
As far as /boot is concerned, I like the name, but I hate polluting the
namespace. We've already abrogated /cygdrive, so I was thinking that
we should stick with that even though it doesn't make sense to refer
to the windows directory as a "drive".
Also, btw, the specific application that I was thinking about for this
is cygwin-xfree. Suhaib tells me that he needs to install some DLLs
in the system area. This raises the hairs on the back of my neck,
but I assume that he has a good reason.
cgf
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