From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: 2.2.1: NTFS directory symlinks handling
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DB2262.70408@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55D7C3E0.3020703@aosc.xyz>
On 8/21/2015 8:35 PM, Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5) wrote:
> It is known that cygwin has a naive interpretation for NTFS symlinks, by
> translating those paths directly. This works fine with most cases, but
> when you link stuffs under `/` to somewhere like `../cygwin/home`, it
> simply breaks.
>
> I have a directory tree like this:
>
> |- cygwin/
> |- home/
> |- Arthur/
> |- .gnupg/ (mklink /D .gnupg \Users\Arthur\Appdata\Roaming\gnupg)
> |- .ssh/ (mklink /D .ssh \Users\Arthur\.ssh)
> |- tmp/
> |- 1.txt
> |- cygwin64/
> |- tmp@ (mklink /D tmp ..\cygwin\tmp)
> |- home@ (mklink /D home ..\cygwin\home)
>
> It appears that those `.gnupg` and `.ssh` with an absolute path to the
> drive root was interpreted correctly, like
> `/cygdrive/c/Users/Arthur/.ssh`, but cygwin64's /tmp and /home breaks,
> with the following manner described:
>
I would suggest to stick to absolute paths.
What happens when you "dir ..\cygwin"? I.E.: Is it a valid path to
begin with?
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2015-08-22 0:36 Mingye Wang (Arthur2e5)
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