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Re: Problems with an NT Installation
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Problems with an NT Installation
- From: "Paul Garceau" <pgarceau at qwest dot net>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:14:48 -0800
- Organization: New Dawn Productions
- References: <3AA3B0CE.2384.6FC05C@localhost>; from pgarceau@qwest.net on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:29:18PM -0800
- Reply-to: Paul Garceau <pgarceau at qwest dot net>
On 5 Mar 2001, at 18:56, the Illustrious Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 03:29:18PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
> >On 5 Mar 2001, at 10:15, the Illustrious Harry Erwin wrote:
> >> I guess that they try to access /tmp which is on C: drive (check your
> >> mount table). /tmp must be writable for many programs.
> >
> > It should also be readable...as I recall, (and I am open to
> >corrections on this); cygwin uses the /tmp drive (wherever it is
> >defined or mounted as) for certain core cygwin processes (I am not
> >familiar enough with the API to comment on which ones).
>
> % cd /cygnus/src/winsup/cygwin
> % grep /tmp *.cc
> %
Thanks, Chris. Point taken.
>
> The Cygwin DLL does not use /tmp for anything, AFAIK.
>
> Bash uses /tmp, though.
That is what I thought...wish I could be clearer sometimes...
Peace,
Paul G.
>
> cgf
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