Cygwin 1.7 & Windows Batch File & mount temp in windows temp before starting...

Fri Aug 14 14:49:00 GMT 2009

Purrer Wolfgang wrote:
> I want to provide X â€“ Services on a Windows Terminal Server.
>> Cygwin is on a file share
>> To get xwin to work, i have to mount /tmp to %temp%
>> But with 1.7 the mount points arenâ€™t saved in the registry any more
>> So a â€žWindows - batch â€“ file â€ž like this doesnt work
>> mount %TEMP% /tmp
> xwin â€“ac â€“query 1.2.3.4
>> How do you i proceed?

Maybe you could modify your batch file to contain something like the
following instead:
PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%
C:\cygwin\bin\bash -c "mount \"$(cygpath -w \"$TEMP\")\" /tmp && xwin
â€“ac â€“query 1.2.3.4"
This should ensure that your new mount isn't lost before running xwin
since the same Cygwin session is running both mount and xwin. I tested
this over a remote desktop session running mintty instead of xwin, and
it seems to set things up like you want.
-Jeremy
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