vboxsharedfs - Too many levels of symbolic links

[Oskar Skog]

On 2021-12-06 05:31, Takashi Yano wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 16:49:13 +0200
> Oskar Skog wrote:
>> But if I create a symlink on that filesystem, it's not identified as a
>> symlink. Although, I don't know if this has ever worked as it is the
>> first time I've ever tested it, it probably hasn't ever worked (see
>> below).
>>
>> user@DESKTOP-******* /cygdrive/z$ ln -s report.pdf test.pdf
>> user@DESKTOP-******* /cygdrive/z$ ls -l report.pdf test.pdf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 user None 1454562 Nov 28 12:05 report.pdf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 user None      34 Dec  5 16:36 test.pdf
>> user@DESKTOP-******* /cygdrive/z$ cat test.pdf
>> !<symlink>▒▒report.pdfuser@DESKTOP-******* /cygdrive/z$
>>
>> I think it's because "special" attributes don't work on VirtualBox
>> shared folders, I can't hide files in Explorer either.
>>
>> So I don't think the patch has caused any regression here.
> 
> I cannot reproduce that behaviour.
> 
> yano@DESKTOP-LSNFFD0 /cygdrive/z
> $ echo AAAAAAAAAAAA > a
> 
> yano@DESKTOP-LSNFFD0 /cygdrive/z
> $ ln -s a b
> 
> yano@DESKTOP-LSNFFD0 /cygdrive/z
> $ ls -l b
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 yano None 1 Dec  6 12:17 b -> a
> 
> yano@DESKTOP-LSNFFD0 /cygdrive/z
> $ cat b
> AAAAAAAAAAAA
> 
> yano@DESKTOP-LSNFFD0 /cygdrive/z
> $ mount
> C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> D: on /cygdrive/d type iso9660 (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> Z: on /cygdrive/z type vboxsharedfolderfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> 
> 
> Are you running VirtualBox in non-windows host by any chance?
> cygwin symbolic link seems to work only in NTFS file system.
> 
> If shared folder is in linux file system, cygwin symbolic link
> does not work.
> 

Yes, I'm on a Linux host.