From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jcfr4q$ulp$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EEABDB8.4020307@cygwin.com>
On 12/15/2011 07:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> I'm having difficulty seeing how what you have described could work
> unless the consumers of these files are looking for symlinks only,
> which your example above contradicts. And both of the ".bashrc" files
> are registering as plain files, so I think you're right that the file
> system on which they reside is coming into play, assuming the output
> above is from Cygwin's 'ls'. But even if you had ".bashrc" and
> ".bashrc.lnk" with the former being a UNIX-form of symlink and the
> latter being the Cygwin one, I'd still expect Cygwin to recognize
> ".bashrc" first and only go looking for the .lnk version if it
> couldn't find that.
I would think that Cygwin should see the .lnk version first. No? I guess
not. I thought it worked that way before.
> The output of strace may convince you of that as well. ;-) It might
> actually work as you describe it though if
> you can get Cygwin to think that it can't open the former. I could
> see that being the case if the UNIX symlink was created by a user ID
> Cygwin didn't recognize, for example.
I've backed off to using hardlinks which work on both systems but it
doesn't work for directories.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-16 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-14 19:34 Andrew DeFaria
2011-12-14 20:00 ` Jeremy Bopp
2011-12-14 20:15 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2011-12-14 22:32 ` Andrew DeFaria
2011-12-15 23:48 ` Andrew DeFaria
2011-12-16 3:41 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-12-16 16:21 ` Andrew DeFaria [this message]
2011-12-16 16:47 ` Jon Clugston
2011-12-20 17:44 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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