Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts

[jurgen dot defurne at philips dot com]

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 <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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09/23/2003 03:26 PM
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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

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