From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 94225 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2017 21:49:18 -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 94215 invoked by uid 89); 24 Feb 2017 21:49:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:192.168.3, H*r:8.14.7, H*F:U*cygwin, H*Ad:cygwin X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:49:16 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id v1OLnC2u000645; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:49:15 -0800 Message-ID: <58B0AA58.30504@tlinx.org> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:49:00 -0000 From: "L. A. Walsh" User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com CC: codespunk+cygwin@gmail.com Subject: Re: Cannot access volumes mounted with 'mklink /d' which point to a volume UUID References: <58A4741E.5020408@gmail.com> <20170216092611.GE3889@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20170216092611.GE3889@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-02/txt/msg00315.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > This type of directory symlink to a GUID volume path isn't supported > at all yet in Cygwin. As I mentioned, symlinks don't support volume destinations under windows, but Junctions should be used instead. They half-way work under Cygwin (junctions to volumes look like mounted file systems look under linux, but junctions to pathnames get converted by cygwin to symlinks -- losing information when such junctions are restored. Corinna -- could you _please_ re-look at supporting both types of junctions as mount points? Then Cygwin could have "mount-parity" with linux! ;-) Thanks! -- 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