From: Rainer Emrich <rainer@emrich-ebersheim.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Change in logical link behaviour
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 21:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5ba45d5-eaec-4e91-e0dd-f3cf516294b6@emrich-ebersheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200303164124.GE4045@calimero.vinschen.de>
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Am 03.03.2020 um 17:41 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Mar 3 17:05, Rainer Emrich wrote:
>> Am 03.03.2020 um 16:49 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>> On Mar 3 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Mar 3 15:19, Rainer Emrich wrote:
>>>>> Am 03.03.2020 um 14:39 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>>>>> Aha! So powershell does not show the 'l'.
>>>>> The most important thing is the difference between cygwin 3.0.7 and
>>>>> cygwin 3.1.4. For cygwin 3.0.7 the link indicator is shown even in
>>>>> powershell on Windows 7 but not with cygwin-3.1.4. And believe me, the
>>>>> only difference is the cygwin version.
>>>>
>>>> I may believe you, but believe me that Cygwin has no influence on
>>>> what powershell shows. See the output of cmd /c dir /a. The file
>>>> is a native symlink.
>>>
>>> ...and for kicks I just tried this on W7 under Cygwin 3.0.7. The output
>>> is the same as I pasted in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-03/msg00043.html
>>>
>>> No 'l' mode flag, no 6th column in the mode output:
>>>
>>> Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
>>> ---- ------------- ------ ----
>>> -a--- 03.03.2020 16:47 0 bar
>>>
>>>
>> For me it's different. That's realy strange.
>>
>> Ok, so I can't rely on powershell here. Is there a recommended procedure
>> for what I try in a script?
>>
>> Check if the current cygwin environment is able to create native symlinks.
>
> Unless I'm missing some new and shiny Windows onboard tool, that's
> surprisingly tricky without creating your own executable checking just
> that. Off the top of my head I don't see any other way than calling cmd
> /c dir and some awk or sed hacking.
Thank you, that's what I thought.
Rainer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-03 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-29 13:11 Rainer Emrich
2020-03-01 2:05 ` Andrey Repin
2020-03-01 17:01 ` Rainer Emrich
2020-03-02 16:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-03 13:17 ` Rainer Emrich
2020-03-03 13:39 ` Rainer Emrich
2020-03-03 14:19 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-03 14:27 ` Rainer Emrich
2020-03-03 14:31 ` Rainer Emrich
2020-03-03 16:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-03 16:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-03 16:41 ` Rainer Emrich
2020-03-03 16:46 ` Rainer Emrich
2020-03-03 17:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2020-03-03 21:43 ` Rainer Emrich [this message]
2020-03-04 19:45 ` Andrey Repin
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