From: James Gregurich <bayoubengal@mac.com>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: native symlink
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:54:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80C3E267-F369-4FF3-A3FD-69A997FFC33B@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130327151656.GB5860@calimero.vinschen.de>
Why don't you add an API call and utility to actually convert an existing cygwin symlink into a native symlink. I'll give you code that does the work. Cygwin already reads and uses the native symlinks. you might as well provide a way to create them.
On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> - Since Vista and the introduction of native symlinks, the OS has
> multiple ways to suppress symlink usage. By default, remote symlinks
> are disallowed, or better, they are not evaluated and the OS returns
> an error instead. This can be changed with the on-board fsutil
> utility. Cygwin didn't yet handle the case that symlinks couldn't be
> read. That's fixed now. Cygwin returns ELOOP for unreadable
> symlinks. ENOENT wouldn't work in this scenario.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-27 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-27 15:17 64 bit Cygwin 1.7.18-12 Corinna Vinschen
2013-03-27 21:54 ` James Gregurich [this message]
2013-03-27 22:41 ` native symlink Larry Hall (Cygwin Developers)
2013-03-31 15:55 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-01 16:17 ` Larry Hall
2013-04-01 19:25 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-01 19:52 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-04-01 22:03 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-02 0:06 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-04-03 0:49 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-03 1:41 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-04-03 3:16 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-03 4:33 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-03 15:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-03 16:32 ` Larry Hall
2013-04-03 16:51 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-03 16:52 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-03 17:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-03 20:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-03 21:35 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-11 16:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-11 21:55 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-12 8:33 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-13 13:08 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-13 14:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-03 21:31 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-24 10:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-24 12:06 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-24 12:50 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-24 17:52 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-24 17:56 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-24 18:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-04-24 18:16 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-04-26 23:39 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-29 22:05 ` utility to update existing cygwin symlinks to native format? (was Re: native symlink) James Gregurich
2013-04-29 23:45 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin Developers)
2013-04-29 23:49 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-29 23:52 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-30 0:25 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-04-30 0:34 ` James Gregurich
2013-04-30 0:44 ` Charles Wilson
2013-04-30 1:19 ` James Gregurich
2013-05-03 21:53 ` native symlink support should fallback to default format if target missing James Gregurich
2013-05-13 15:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-05-13 15:25 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-05-13 15:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-05-13 18:59 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-05-13 19:47 ` Earnie Boyd
2013-05-14 14:52 ` James Gregurich
2013-05-14 15:04 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-05-14 15:54 ` Jeffrey Altman
2013-05-14 16:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-05-14 21:04 ` James Gregurich
2013-05-14 16:42 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-05-14 21:11 ` James Gregurich
2013-05-15 2:28 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-05-15 15:07 ` James Gregurich
2013-05-14 21:04 ` James Gregurich
2013-05-14 15:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2013-05-13 15:00 ` native symlink Corinna Vinschen
2013-05-13 15:12 ` Charles Wilson
2013-05-13 15:39 ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-05-13 20:54 ` Charles Wilson
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