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RE: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?
- From: "Rafael Kitover" <caelum at debian dot org>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:56:36 -0800
- Subject: RE: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
>Robert Collins
>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:36 PM
>To: Robert R Schneck
>Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?
>
>On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:25, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>
>> In fact you are correct. setup.log.full contains:
>> 2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man
>> ...
>> rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man
>> rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache
>> rmdir C:\cygwin/var
>
>> Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I suppose
>> since there's an empty placeholder which gets removed.
>>
>>
>> > Short answer is: 'don't do that'.
>>
>> Reasonably good advice. But it's possible that this should be
>> considered a bug: uninstalling man shouldn't even try to get rid of var,
>> perhaps?
>
>Nope. When uninstalling, directories are cleaned up. I'm not going to
>special case 'uninstall completely' when we don't need to.
>
>Sounds to me like the windows API has yet another idiocy.
Maybe either Cygwin or fileutils could have some support for NTFS junctions,
since they sound like a useful feature, or symlinks could be implemented as
junctions. While we're throwing around unrealistic ideas anyway :)
>
>Rob
>
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