Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <003f01c2d74d$30642bc0$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Ben Clewett" Cc: References: <3E521E8D.7030302@roadrunner.uk.com> Subject: Re: Duplicate CygWin Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 12:56:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Ben Clewett wrote: > (Sorry about incorrect subject on first posting) > > Noting:- It's not a cut down version of CygWin*.DLL I need, but a cut > down version of the file system, to just a couple of dozen files in > /bin, /tmp, /usr and /etc, forming a 'mini' UNIX for a specific > application. > > Just been scanning the postings quickly. My knowlage of the internals > of CygWin are vauge, but are you saying it's impossible to have two > sideways compatable versions of CygWin installed, as any detected > version miss-match (likelly) will drop the code? There are no such things as sideways-compatible versions of Cygwin. It would be possible to build an *isolated* version of Cygwin. In this case, each Cygwin would view the other as just another native Win32 application. > And there is no way of controling CygWin so that it uses only a > specific .dll? (ie, using the PATH variable or something...) > > My other need, to have a separate /root directory for each runnin > Cygwin, I can't see anything on that. > > If this is not possible, would it be too hard to put some hack into > the .dll to, say, read an environment variable for it's root, before > the usual registry search? The root directory is NOT the main issue here. It's the shared memory area that is the central issue. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/