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Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit???


Marc Girod wrote:

Ken Brown-6 wrote:
This suggests that you're working in an environment that doesn't recognize
cygwin symlinks.

I am in a ClearCase view.
It is an mvfs file system, something built on top of nfs, and
adapted for smb/cifs.
It supports unix links, but maybe cygwin ones are different.

Yes, they are different and the default technique for 1.7 is different than for 1.5:

<http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.symlinkstoppedworking>
<http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.symlinks-samba>


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