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Re: native symlink


I had one of my guys test the work this morning. The creation of symlinks works fine. Did you implement a utility that can convert an existing cygwin symlink to native form?






On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen  wrote:

> On Apr 24 13:55, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>> On 4/24/2013 8:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Apr 24 08:06, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>>>> On 4/24/2013 6:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> I just applied a patch to CVS which adds AFS support as well as native
>>>>> symlink support.  On AFS, native symlinks are used exclusively, on any
>>>>> other filesystem supporting native symlinks Cygwin will try to create
>>>>> them if you specify "winsymlinks:native" in the $CYGWIN environment
>>>>> variable.
>>>>> 
>>>>> After mulling over this problem I found that using an environment
>>>>> solution is better than the mount point solution, because this allows
>>>>> on-the-fly creating of native symlinks in certain scenarios, while the
>>>>> default can be kept at using Cygwin sysfile symlinks, which are still
>>>>> better suited for a POSIX environment.
>>>>> 
>>>>> For completeness, you can also specify "winsymlinks:lnk" or just 
>>>>> "winsymlinks".  This will result in trying to generate shortcut
>>>>> type symlinks, as before.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jeffrey, please give especially AFS at try here.
>>>> 
>>>> I've confirmed that the unrecognized reparse point fix in 1.7.18-1
>>>> does work.  Unfortunately, I'm still unable to get gcc (actually cc1)
>>>> to build even a simple hello world c program.   Is there is a nightly
>>>> binary distribution I can use to test from?
>>> 
>>> i686:
>>> 
>>>  http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>> 
>> I have confirmed that the change works on AFS without the environment
>> setting.
> 
> Cool.  Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 
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> Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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