Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Jan 12 16:48:00 GMT 2010


On Jan 11 14:14, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear?  I only compared
> >the old and the new format.  The new format using UTF-16 is used by both
> >styles of symlinks, the SYSTEM and the .lnk style.
> 
> OK, I didn't get that from my reading of the description.  I'd recommend
> adding that path names of either style now use UTF-16, just to be clear.
> I doubt this is a critical issue of course but it's worthwhile to make this
> distinction to avoid confusion.

I tried to make it clearer.  Is that better?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html


Corinna

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