Thank you Corinna! And sorry for the delayed response. Maybe this is something I can put on my TODO "wish list" -- going through the Cygwin docs, learning the internals a bit better and maybe adding to them. It's always nice to have a nice doc explaining the high-level architecture and then other docs to "drill down" to the details on certain areas. I've always been amazed by what Cygwin does.
Daniel On 12/9/19 4:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 9 01:12, Daniel Santos wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I see that when you copy Cygwin executables (and dlls) to a random >> windows machine and run (for example) bash.exe that Cygwin treats the >> parent directory as the root, assigns it an 8-byte serial number and >> records it in the user registry. Can somebody point me to where the >> code is that does this? I presume somewhere under winsup/cygwin? > winsup/cygwin/cygheap.cc, method init_cygheap::init_installation_root() > >> Also, are there pretty docs somewhere that detail the Cygwin internals, >> architecture, etc? It's making me curious... > The internals are not overly well documented. There are a few how* txt > files in winsup/cygwin but they are old and partially outdated. I try > to write extensive git commit messages and inline comments whenever I > change stuff and also try to convince other contributors to do that, > too. > > > Corinna > -- 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
