symlink created on Samba (Final Resolution)

Stephen Iribarne stv@tutsys.com
Fri Jun 16 10:39:00 GMT 2000


Title: RE: symlink created on Samba (Final Resolution)





That's not going to work unless everyone sets up a mount to the proper Unix directories.  But yeah it could work.. I'm just trying to make it a little more automatic.

-stv


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-----Original Message-----
From:   Rui-Tao Dong [SMTP:ruitao@home.com]
Sent:   Friday, June 16, 2000 10:34 AM
To:     cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject:        Re: symlink created on Samba (Final Resolution)



>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Faylor <cgf@c...> writes:


 Chris> I wouldn't expect Metaware to fix a problem with Cygwin
 Chris> symlinks.  Cygwin symlinks are entirely a cygwin invention.
 Chris> Unless Metware is using cygwin they will not, and shouldn't be
 Chris> expected to, understand symlinks


One trick is to create the symlink on the unix side and it will became
two identical files to windows.


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