This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
symbolic links on Samba-mounted drive
- From: Steve Kelem <steve dot kelem at elementcxi dot com>
- To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: Endric Schubert <endric at endric dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:32:25 -0800
- Subject: symbolic links on Samba-mounted drive
I'm running the latest Cygwin on WinXP SP2. I have coreutils-5.2.1-3
installed.
I have a Linux directory mounted via Samba.
If I do the following in the mounted Linux directory, the links don't
come out right.
% mkdir directory
% echo text > file
% ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 1 skelem None 0 Dec 23 10:27 directory/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 skelem None 5 Dec 23 10:27 file*
% ln -s directory dir
% ln -s file f
% ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 skelem None 98 Dec 23 10:28 dir.lnk*
drwxr-xr-x 1 skelem None 0 Dec 23 10:27 directory/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 skelem None 88 Dec 23 10:28 f.lnk*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 skelem None 5 Dec 23 10:27 file*
% cat f
cat: f: No such file or directory
% ls -l dir
ls: dir: No such file or directory
% cat f.lnk
L âÂâ A Fâ â â fi
leâ file
%
The reason I'm bringing this up, is that I'm trying to run a script that
runs on Linux. That script is creating the symbolic links.
(Hard links don't work on directories. A hard link on a file does work.)
Steve Kelem
--
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/