Andy Koppe wrote: > Christopher Faylor: >> rolandc: >>> I have installed cygwin 1.7 in e:\cygwin1.7 >>> After installation, there is a "strange" directory : >>> /E/cygwin1.7/dev/ (posix path) >>> E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev (win32 path) >>> >>> What is the role of this directory? >> It is "/dev". > > /dev would be E:\cygwin1.7\dev, not E:\cygwin1.7\E\cygwin1.7\dev. > > Looks like a bug to me, and the finger of blame points at > /etc/postinstall/{00,}bash.sh: > > DEVDIR="$(cygpath -au "C:/$(cygpath -am /dev/)" | sed 's|/c/\(.\):/|/\1/|')" > mkdir -p "$DEVDIR" || result=1 > > I haven't stared at the sed magic long enough to work out exactly what > it does or why, but it looks suspiciously like it assumes that Cygwin > is installed on the C drive.
This looks to be the same as the following problem: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00944.html -- Cliff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple