From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 83110 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2015 18:35:29 -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 83098 invoked by uid 89); 24 Sep 2015 18:35:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtp.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:35:25 +0000 Received: from [95.165.144.62] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@rootdir.org) id 1ZfBMU-0005rj-BR ; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:35:18 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:33:00 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:35:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <836812111.20150924213300@yandex.ru> To: Linda Walsh , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version In-Reply-To: <56042985.2040104@tlinx.org> References: <154887677.20150923111537@yandex.ru> <56036256.8080209@tlinx.org> <56037F66.40209@tlinx.org> <56042985.2040104@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00424.txt.bz2 Greetings, Linda Walsh! >>> > > > > I believe the target of the symlink should be "protocol" (i.e. >>> How would that affect 'services'? >> >> Sorry, you lost me. 'services' has 8 characters in the file name and so is >> its symlink target; That shouldn't be an issue. Of the 4 symlinks under >> /etc/ (i.e. networks, hosts, services, and protocols), only 'protocols' >> exceeds the 8 character limit and hence the actual target file in >> Windows/System32/drivers/etc/ is 'protocol'. NOTE: I'm talking about the >> *target* file not the symlinks themselves, which are fine. > --- > Oops.. my bad -- don't know why I substituted services. However, > weren't those files there for unix-subsystem support? Not sure: > From this: > https://books.google.com/books?id=6hlNFc7drzEC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=reason+for+drivers/etc/protocol+on+windows&source=bl&hl=en&sa=X&q=reason%20for%20drivers%2Fetc%2Fprotocol%20on%20windows&f=false#v=snippet&q=reason%20for%20drivers%2Fetc%2Fprotocol%20on%20windows&f=false > (page 39) -- it says those files were specific to NT systems beginning with > NT4.0, which used NTFS. I don't know if NT supported having the windows/system32 > directory on FAT][32]... It did. Read the help article about "convert" tool for more info. > NT4 would have been the version before Windows 2000 Aye. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, September 24, 2015 21:32:08 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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