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Re: 1.7.6 snapshot: intermittent "CreateProcessW failed"
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:40:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1.7.6 snapshot: intermittent "CreateProcessW failed"
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On Jun 30 23:19, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 6/30/2010 6:52 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> >Greetings, Andy Koppe!
> >
> >>>>C:/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> >>>>C:/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> >>>>C: on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> >>>
> >>>Urgh. I hope you know what you're doing...
> >
> >>Yeah, I do trust the Cygwin package maintainers not to overwrite
> >>/Windows or /Users.
> >
> >Actually that was a reference to C:/bin being a pointer to /usr/bin instead
> >of /bin In normal installation it is that way plus /usr/bin as symlink to
> >/bin Not the other way around. (sh is in /bin, with your structure, no way it
> >could be reached through C:/bin )
>
> Actually, what Andy has is what 'setup.exe' provides if you install in
> 'C:\'. I have the same thing. So what he has is a "normal installation"
> if the user chooses to install in 'C:\'. Also, FWIW, 'setup.exe' does not
> create a "symlink" from '/usr/bin' to '/bin'. It only creates the mounts
> like what Andy shows above.
Actually, these mount points are not created by setup. As you can see
from the above `mount' output, they are automatic mount points which
are generated at startup of the first Cygwin instance:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table
Start at "A correct root directory is quite essential ..."
Corinna
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