From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 49382 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2018 19:38:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 49373 invoked by uid 89); 17 Dec 2018 19:38:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*c:PHrt, H*r:74.6.129, H*c:alternative, H*x:5.0 X-HELO: sonic301-4.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com Received: from sonic301-4.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com (HELO sonic301-4.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com) (74.6.129.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:38:27 +0000 Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic301.consmr.mail.bf2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:38:25 +0000 Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:50:00 -0000 From: "Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin" Reply-To: Simon Liesenfeld To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <156113751.5686052.1545075501038@mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20181217192223.GC28727@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <1823593702.5343751.1545034298027.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1823593702.5343751.1545034298027@mail.yahoo.com> <20181217093428.GQ28727@calimero.vinschen.de> <20181217165741.GB28727@calimero.vinschen.de> <768216656.5669803.1545072652503@mail.yahoo.com> <20181217192223.GC28727@calimero.vinschen.de> Subject: Re: symbolic links on Paragon Linux File systems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-12/txt/msg00161.txt.bz2 Hi Corinnayou are right,I mixed it the symlink with the hard link the symlink is sl (on file source) E:\>type sl source < just the filename as you say> but the hard link does work (on file source) E:\>type hl hallo erna otto hugo E:\>echo rudi >> source E:\>type hl hallo erna otto hugo rudi or with cygwin $pwd/cygdrive/eecho hajo >>source $ cat hl hallo erna otto hugo rudi hajo On Monday, December 17, 2018, 8:22:25 PM GMT+1, Corinna Vinschen wrote:=20=20 =20 =20 Please, do not top-post. On Dec 17 18:50, Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin wrote: >=C2=A0 Hi Corinna, > since you answered your own questionsI can better understand my own > stupidity.I have created now a hard and a soft link with a native > linux,then I booted Windows, started the paragon driver,then cygwin=C2=A0 > programs as well as any dos program perfectly understood the links. Not in my testing.=C2=A0 I installed the Paragon trial driver and tested on a filesystem with files and symlinks created by native Linux.=C2=A0 The symlinks are not understood at all.=C2=A0 From the Windows perspective they are just plain files with the name of the target file as content. Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer=20=20 -- 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