Accessing native NT namespace as filesystem

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com
Thu Sep 9 20:28:00 GMT 2010


On 03/09/2010 21:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Please have a look.  If nobody finds something terribly wrong, I'll
> check this in on Monday.

  I noticed that it has some kind of hiccup with SymbolicLink type objects
when the destination of the link doesn't exist:

> $ ls -lart /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects/Local
> lr--r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 2010-09-09 21:46 /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects
> /Local -> /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects
> 
> $ ls -lart /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects/Global
> lr--r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 2010-09-09 21:46 /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects
> /Global -> /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects
> 
> $ ls -lart /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects/Session
> ls: cannot access /proc/sys/BaseNamedObjects/Session: No such file or directory
> 
> $

  Minor hiccups aside, this is neat!

    cheers,
      DaveK




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