From: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com>,
"cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Another reason to not corrupt winnative symlinks: :currenly, they are linux-CIFS compat. Cygwin's are not.
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 11:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5656E3C2.6080405@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5655A3AF.8010601@gmail.com>
David Macek wrote:
> Can you describe what purpose does your C:\proc serve? I'm not currently arguing for or against Corinna's proposal, I'm just curious.
>
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Notice the date on it... I created it 2-3 years ago...
but it was likely to get some behavior to work the same
with windows utils and linux utils. I have my cygroot
set to '/' (sorta)...and paths on my linux box and windows
box often resolve to the same file. Since the underlying
NT OS is slash impartial, many pathnames will work w/o conversion.
That's why I tried to get Corrina to support the MS-View of
MS-junctions being the MS-equiv of linux Mount-points --
She's wiping out linux compatibility by turning them into
the same as 'symlinkd' entries.
I also had both cygwin32 and cygwin64 working on my system
at the same time, with win-applications invoking the 'correct
bit-wise versions and libs by using Ms's 32/64-bit 'system32'
redirect, but having things like tar and rsync ovewrite your
mountpoints on every install and update made it a high maintenance
task.
Basically my login to both machines looks very similar -- same
bash setup.
What was really 'cool' is mounting my win-fs near the root
and having the Windows symlinks ... this is another good reason
not to screw w/things... it will break linux compatibility
even more... The symlinks on Windows work as unix symlinks
when the share is mounted on a unix dir. So on linux, I see:
l--------- 1 0 Jul 16 2013 D -> /??/UNC/Ishtar/Documents/
l--------- 1 0 Feb 28 2015 M -> /??/UNC/Bliss/Music/
l--------- 1 0 Feb 28 2015 P -> /??/UNC/Bliss/Pictures/
l--------- 1 0 Mar 28 2013 Share -> /??/UNC/Bliss/Share/
l--------- 1 0 Apr 21 2013 prog64 -> Program Files/
===(among others)...
But those links resolve on linux - I just
created a dir in root named '??'.. etc. and filled
out the structure... so file access on from my linux
machine can resolve seemlessly. If corrina changes
to a non-compatible symlink format then they won't resolve
as linux symlinks under linux CIFS.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-26 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-17 22:28 Symlink targets dereferenced when winsymlinks:native David Macek
2015-11-18 17:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-18 18:13 ` David Macek
2015-11-18 19:48 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-18 20:01 ` Warren Young
2015-11-18 20:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-19 18:53 ` David Macek
2015-11-19 19:36 ` Nellis, Kenneth
2015-11-19 21:17 ` David Macek
2015-11-20 9:26 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-24 21:48 ` David Macek
2015-11-26 12:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-29 14:10 ` David Macek
2015-11-29 17:10 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-20 9:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-24 19:51 ` David Macek
2015-11-25 3:20 ` Linda Walsh
2015-11-25 14:59 ` David Macek
2015-11-26 11:53 ` Linda Walsh [this message]
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