From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>, "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006701c22d3f$d6b486e0$d500a8c0@study2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020716193950.03031af8@pop3.cris.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz@cris.com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@syncretize.net>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> >It's not the ln smarts that are needed, its the cygwin1.dll hard link
> >smarts. I'd happily accept a patch to the cygfile:// handler in setup to
> >perform hard links rather thank copies. Of course, the package
maintainers
> >will suddenly all need to build on NTFS as well, and with hardlinks to
boot,
> >before anything changes.
>
> It occurred to me that Cygwin1.dll might be making the copy on FAT file
> systems, but that didn't seem to make much sense, since the "hard link
> fails on FAT" case seems awfully close to the "cross-dev link fails" case
> that a conventional Unix "ln" already has to deal with.
Huh? Cygwin1.dll doesn't make a copy on FAT - it fails as you have just
noted.. Setup.exe's cygfile:// handler makes copies.
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-17 3:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-15 2:20 Matt Swift
2002-07-15 2:26 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15 5:36 ` gzip.exe as symlink Max Bowsher
2002-07-15 5:38 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15 12:41 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-15 14:47 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-15 15:57 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-15 22:22 ` Max Bowsher
2002-07-15 9:21 ` Dario Alcocer
2002-07-15 12:02 ` gzip.exe as symlink breaks NTEmacs's jka-compr.el Jon Cast
2002-07-15 17:05 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2002-07-16 8:59 ` Matt Swift
2002-07-16 9:14 ` David Starks-Browning
2002-07-16 9:17 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 10:21 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:27 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 19:43 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:51 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 20:12 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 20:14 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-16 23:05 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 23:42 ` Robert Collins [this message]
2002-07-17 0:53 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-17 0:58 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-07-17 0:59 ` Robert Collins
2002-07-16 20:36 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 23:54 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-18 17:08 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 19:49 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 19:52 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-15 15:46 gzip.exe as symlink Robinow, David
2002-07-15 15:48 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-07-16 18:51 ` Jon Cast
2002-07-16 18:50 files and directories distinction: Aldi Kraja
2002-07-16 19:34 ` Randall R Schulz
2002-07-16 19:37 ` Jon Cast
[not found] <rrschulz@cris.com>
2003-03-29 4:00 ` Mozilla 1.3 built on cygwin? Jeff.Hodges
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