On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Dec 10, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Alexey Pavlov <alex...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also we switch to use real /usr folder and just create virtual mount for >> /bin folder that needed for some programs. > > You’re fighting the prevailing trend in Unix/Linux OS design by doing that. > Solaris, Red Hat, and probably others also alias /usr/bin and /bin, and > /usr/lib and /lib. It isn’t some weird Cygwin-only practice. >
We're sticking as close as we can to real Linux. From my Arch Linux installation: ls -l / drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Oct 31 12:12 usr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Oct 25 19:41 bin -> usr/bin .. so Linux has a real /usr folder like we do, and they use symlinks for /bin and /lib. Since symlinks on Windows aren't always possible we opted to use mounts instead. > The reason for this separation goes back to the days when it made sense to > have separate physical volumes for the OS root and the “user space”. Now > that you can get 64 gigs on a chip the size of your fingernail, this Unix > design principle is about to follow UUCP into the dustbin of history. > -- > 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 > -- 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
