Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 12/16/2011 11:46 AM, Jon Clugston wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Andrew DeFaria<Andrew@defaria.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/15/2011 07:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm having difficulty seeing how what you have described could work unless
>>> the consumers of these files are looking for symlinks only, which your
>>> example above contradicts.  And both of the ".bashrc" files are registering
>>> as plain files, so I think you're right that the file system on which they
>>> reside is coming into play, assuming the output above is from Cygwin's 'ls'.
>>>   But even if you had ".bashrc" and ".bashrc.lnk" with the former being a
>>> UNIX-form of symlink and the latter being the Cygwin one, I'd still expect
>>> Cygwin to recognize ".bashrc" first and only go looking for the .lnk version
>>> if it couldn't find that.
>>
>> I would think that Cygwin should see the .lnk version first. No? I guess
>> not. I thought it worked that way before.
>
> This would be a performance disaster - forcing a check for 'x.lnk'
> every time the software tried to access file 'x'.  I doubt that it
> worked that way before.

Correct.  It did not work this way for the reason you stated.

-- 
Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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