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Date: | Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:33:00 +0300 |
From: | Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru> |
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To: | Linda Walsh <cygwin AT tlinx DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Issues encountered with new Cygwin version |
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Greetings, Linda Walsh! >>> > > > > I believe the target of the symlink should be "protocol" (i.e. >>> How would that affect 'services'? >> >> Sorry, you lost me. 'services' has 8 characters in the file name and so is >> its symlink target; That shouldn't be an issue. Of the 4 symlinks under >> /etc/ (i.e. networks, hosts, services, and protocols), only 'protocols' >> exceeds the 8 character limit and hence the actual target file in >> Windows/System32/drivers/etc/ is 'protocol'. NOTE: I'm talking about the >> *target* file not the symlinks themselves, which are fine. > --- > Oops.. my bad -- don't know why I substituted services. However, > weren't those files there for unix-subsystem support? Not sure: > From this: > https://books.google.com/books?id=6hlNFc7drzEC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=reason+for+drivers/etc/protocol+on+windows&source=bl&hl=en&sa=X&q=reason%20for%20drivers%2Fetc%2Fprotocol%20on%20windows&f=false#v=snippet&q=reason%20for%20drivers%2Fetc%2Fprotocol%20on%20windows&f=false > (page 39) -- it says those files were specific to NT systems beginning with > NT4.0, which used NTFS. I don't know if NT supported having the windows/system32 > directory on FAT][32]... It did. Read the help article about "convert" tool for more info. > NT4 would have been the version before Windows 2000 Aye. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, September 24, 2015 21:32:08 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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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