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RE: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux


Jeremy Bopp sent the following at Wednesday, December 14, 2011 3:01 PM
>On 12/14/2011 01:33 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> I like having only one home directory. It's extremely convenient to have
>> the same settings and the like both when on Cygwin and when on Linux.
>>
>> Often home directories are on NAS's and the like and served out via smb.
>>
>> Somewhere along the line Cygwin's symlink implementation changed again.
>> It used to be that symlinks ended in .lnk, which was sort of a pain but
>> workable. One nice thing is that they didn't clash with Linux symlinks.
>> A Cygwin symlink is not the same as a Linux symlink and so you could have:
>>
>> $ ln -s a_file.txt link1 # in Cygwin
>> $ ln -s a_file.txt link1 # in Linux
>>
>> and you'd end up having a symlink with the same name, link1, pointing to
>> the same file from either Cygwin or Linux. This is because the Linux
>> symlink is named just "link1" and the Cygwin symlink is named "link1.txt".
>>
>> But now Cygwin names its symlink "link1". When you then log into Linux
>> and try to access that link it doesn't work.
>>
>> Where this is happening for me is that I put all of my rc files under
>> ~/.rc and then I symlink them to ~ as appropriate. So, for example I
>> have a ~/.rc/inputrc. I then symlink them to ~/.inputrc. Under the old
>> scenario I'd get a ~/.inputrc.lnk for Cygwin and a ~/.inputrc on Linux.
>> Under the new scenario I get a clash.
>>
>> Is there any way around this?
>
>Would a hard link work instead?

Might CYGWIN=winsymlinks help?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
More:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.symlinkstoppedworking
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.api.symlinks

Good luck.

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.



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