From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26497 invoked by alias); 27 Jun 2002 11:44:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 26477 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 11:44:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta02ps.bigpond.com) (144.135.25.134) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 11:44:27 -0000 Received: from lifelesswks ([144.135.25.75]) by mta02ps.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 mta02ps Apr 29 2002 13:22:02) with SMTP id GYD4M000.02O for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:44:24 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-137-122-165.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([144.137.122.165]) by PSMAM03.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V3.0n 83/22148636); 27 Jun 2002 21:44:24 From: "Robert Collins" To: Subject: RE: Fun with symlinks? Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 06:18:00 -0000 Message-ID: <001c01c21dd0$02ff15f0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020627134043.A1188@cygbert.vinschen.de> X-SW-Source: 2002-06/txt/msg01506.txt.bz2 > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2002 9:41 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Fun with symlinks? > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:17:12PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Corinna Vinschen" > > To: > > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:12 PM > > > > > That's a problem of setup.exe which doesn't understand > that there's > > > a symlink of the Windows shortcut type (*.lnk) is in the way. > > > Setup should actually remove the symlink when creating the real > > > file. > > > > Hmm, I thought we had patched setup to handle this. mmm. > > I've proposed a patch on cygwin-apps months ago but somehow it didn't > make it into the sources. Or did it make it into the sources but > didn't survive for some reason? I don't remember... 2002-01-15 Corinna Vinschen * io_stream.cc (io_stream::gets): Eliminate trailing new line chars. * package_meta.cc (packagemeta::uninstall): Check for additional Windows shortcut. Unset R/O file attribute before trying to delete file. Rob. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/