Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/03/30/18:36:09
At 09:18 AM 3/24/98 -0500, Stuart Adams wrote:
>Symlinks don't seem to work on a remote (samba)
>mounted file system. If I do ln -s a b, then say cat b
>I get !<symlink>a.
>
>I mounted the dir with:
> mount -b m:/gnu /gnu
>
>-- Stuart
>
For performance reasons, cygwin only looks at files with the "system"
attribute set to determine if the file is a symbolic link or not. This
would tend to explain the behavior you see. I'm not aware of a workaround
but then again I don't know much about samba:-(
Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053
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Wellesley, MA 02181 http://www.rfk.com
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