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Eric Blake wrote: > >> (set (make-local-variable 'purify_flag) t)))) > > Setting purify-flag wasn't working for me (emacs gave a message > about an assertion failure). > Huh? Nothing like that here. In fact, it works... Wait: - I still have the 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks' setting --although unsetting it doesn't affect - there was this typo on purify_flag --but I assume you saw it: dash, not underscore Eric Blake wrote: > > Rather, it seems that the REAL problem is that cygwin1.dll cannot > recognize attempts to create symlinks on the clearcase MVFS file system. > OK. However, it is and was able to create something. My problem has been that it wasn't able to remove them. Eric Blake wrote: > > Maybe we should be trying to change cygwin to cause > symlink() to fail with a proper errno on MVFS, and then > revisit the emacs side of the equation to see how emacs > handles failure to create a symlink when errno is ENOSYS > (or whatever errno cygwin uses). Or maybe it is just > a matter of detecting that if the file system does not > support DOS attributes (which are essential in creating > new-style symlinks), that an old-style symlink must be > created on that filesystem. > OK again. Now you are already much deeper than I ever was in the causes. The MVFS doesn't support DOS attributes? I have no clue about that. How may I check this? Interesting... makesystem> type volinfo bash: type: volinfo: not found makesystem> cygcheck -p volinfo Found 0 matches for volinfo. makesystem> df -T . Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on X: unknown 81920000 30720000 51200000 38% /cygdrive/x Note: I am one version behind with cygwin: 1.7.0-50 makesystem> touch foo makesystem> ln -s foo bar makesystem> readlink bar || echo $? foo makesystem> file bar bar: symbolic link to `foo' makesystem> ll bar lrwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 3 Jul 15 18:56 bar -> foo makesystem> rm bar rm: cannot remove `bar': Permission denied makesystem> ct pwv Working directory view: emagiro_86 Set view: emagiro_86 makesystem> export CYGWIN=tty makesystem> ln -s foo zoo makesystem> readlink zoo || echo $? 1 makesystem> ll zoo -rw-r--r-- 1 emagiro EEI-ATusers 20 Jul 15 18:58 zoo makesystem> file zoo zoo: data makesystem> od -c zoo 0000000 ! < s y m l i n k > 377 376 f \0 o \0 0000020 o \0 \0 \0 0000024 makesystem> rm zoo makesystem> I confirm that my find-file-hook works. I didn't want to restart my emacs, but I tried with: (setenv "CYGWIN" "tty") "tty" in the *scratch* buffer, and opening an existing checked-out file. No lock created. Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/.-*-lock-files-under-X%2C-for-files-I-edit----tp23655794p24503085.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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