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Date:	Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:01:48 -0500
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Subject:	Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)
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On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbremal AT hotmail DOT com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as
> long  as no symbolic link executables are invoked:
>
> $ awk
> bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied

One option is to invoke the executable pointed to instead.  Another is to
replace the symbolic link with a hard link.  A third is to use SAMBA instead.

> The NFS drive does not seem to support the DOS system attribute which
> makes basic UNIX utilities unavailable.
>
> Is there any way to tell Cygwin to ignore the system attribute?

No.  If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would be to 
convert the
symbolic links to their "winsymlinks" format.  If course, doing that means 
you loose
UTF character support.  See 
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>
for more on this option.

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