From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27229 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2003 14:03:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 27208 invoked from network); 23 Sep 2003 14:03:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gw-nl5.philips.com) (212.153.235.109) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Sep 2003 14:03:22 -0000 Received: from smtpscan-nl3.philips.com (smtpscan-nl3.philips.com [130.139.36.23]) by gw-nl5.philips.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2695519B for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:03:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtpscan-nl3.philips.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.philips.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBA019C46 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:03:20 +0200 (MEST) Received: from smtprelay-nl2.philips.com (smtprelay-eur2.philips.com [130.139.36.35]) by smtpscan-nl3.philips.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F377A19C4C for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:03:19 +0200 (MEST) Received: from hbg001soh.diamond.philips.com (e1soh01.diamond.philips.com [130.143.165.45]) by smtprelay-nl2.philips.com (8.9.3-p1/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id QAA17711 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:03:19 +0200 (MEST) From: jurgen.defurne@philips.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:04:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg01457.txt.bz2 Hello, Corinna, Symlinks form the installation are created as ordinary files, ie. instead of eg. lrwxrwxrwx .... ld.exe -> /usr/bin/ld.exe I get -rw-r--r-- ... ld.exe Unfortunately, I deleted the other files. Jurgen Corinna Vinschen Sent by: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 09/23/2003 03:26 PM Please respond to cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com cc: (bcc: Jurgen Defurne/BRG/CE/PHILIPS) Subject: Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts Classification: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:37:29PM +0200, jurgen.defurne@philips.com wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed this before, but since the solution is simple, > though a little bit annoying, I did not mention it. > > I think this is also only an issue for people who use > cygwin from a shared drive, and the shared drive > comes from Samba, not native Windows. > > Anyhow, I have to recreate manually all symbolic > links, and I have to delete all Windows shortcuts > from my directories, because they do not work. Can you elaborate on this? What means they "don't work"? I can create symlinks on my samba share fine and they also work so the above is not very useful information. Magic formula: "Simple testcase". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/