[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.1
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 24 19:17:00 GMT 2014
On Oct 24 20:20, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>
> > For your convenience I wrote new documentation. Since this is a TEST
> > prerelease, the new documentation is not part of the official docs yet.
> > Rather have a look at
>
> > https://cygwin.com/preliminary-ntsec.html
>
> "via an undocumented APIr " should be "... API, " probably.
Thanks, fixed.
> > If you read it
> > (which I seriously hope for) and it's all just incomprehensible
> > gobbledygook to you, please say so on the mailing list
>
> > cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>
> > so we have a chance to improve the documentation.
>
> I'm in the process of reading it. Goes slowly, but that's due to my head
> condition. It really a very good read, thank you.
Thanks, I'm glad to read that.
> > - /proc/cygdrive is a new symlink pointing to the current cygdrive prefix.
> > This can be utilized in scripts to access paths via cygdrive prefix, even
> > if the cygdrive prefix has been changed by the user.
>
> Hm. The prefix currently set to just "/".
>
> $ ls -l /proc/cygdrive
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 0 Oct 24 20:17 /proc/cygdrive -> /proc/cygdrive
>
> $ ls -l /proc/cygdrive/
> ls: cannot access /proc/cygdrive/: Not a directory
>
> Is this... normal?
No, it's a bug. The internal cygdrive path has a trailing slash, which
I have to remove for the symlink. If the cygdrive path is "/", the
result is an empty path, which is the same as a self-reference. I fixed
that in CVS.
> Or what this is supposed to be at all? Shouldn't it be a simple text file
> containing current cygdrive prefix?
As a symlink, you can use /proc/cygdrive directly as path component
in a script. With a text file you couldn't do that.
> > - /proc/partitions now prints the windows mount points the device is mounted
> > on. This allows to recognize the underlying Windows devices of the Cygwin
> > raw device names.
> [...]
> I approve of this product and/or service.
> I would use a mountvol data around here somewhere, too. But it's useful as it
> is already.
mountvol data?!? -v?
> > - New API: quotactl, designed after the Linux/BSD function, but severly
> severely? I'm no expert, but that's probably the right form.
Thanks, fixed.
> A slightly unrelated request, but... I just had an issue I could prevent if
> applying brain to hands, but... would it be a feasible request to make the
> output of 'uname -r' suitable for naming a file?
I wouldn't do that. The layout is checked by existing scripts. I wouldn't
want to break that.
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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