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Koichi Yamaguchi wrote:
> Hi Larry,
> 
> Thank you. It worked.
> Now I figured out that if a folder, in which cygwin will be installed,
> doesn't include SYSTEM user permission, installation program
> cannot set appropriate attribute to symbolic links automatically.


That's a "feature" of Windows which can be disabled.  If you bring up the
properties tabs for the parent directory and disable inheritance of 
permissions on the permissions tab, you won't see this behavior.  An
alternative is just what you did.


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