Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20010425135705.00d36990@ics.u-strasbg.fr> X-Sender: muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:09:48 +0200 To: Corinna Vinschen From: Pierre Muller Subject: Re: Symbol link trouble ? In-Reply-To: <20010425131337.O23753@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <4.2.0.58.20010425122954.00b3de80@ics.u-strasbg.fr> <4.2.0.58.20010425105548.0177e8a0@ics.u-strasbg.fr> <4.2.0.58.20010425105548.0177e8a0@ics.u-strasbg.fr> <20010425122831.M23753@cygbert.vinschen.de> <4.2.0.58.20010425122954.00b3de80@ics.u-strasbg.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At 13:13 25/04/01 , vous avez écrit: >On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:40:40PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote: > > > > >Aaargh! Really? I don't have any 95 for testing purposes so > > >I can't look for this. Did you ever think about upgrading to > > >OSR2, 98, ME, NT, W2K? Ok, ok, seriously, if you can't live > > > > OS version is 4.00.950 B > > B means OSR 2, no ? > >I think so. > > > >with that, you should set your CYGWIN environment variable to > > >contain "nowinsymlinks". In that case, the old symlink method > > >is used again. > > > > Adding nowinsymlinks to CYGWIN env variable does > > indeed cure the problem ! > > > > I also find this bug quite strange: > > the wrong destination to the symbolic link is > > kept even if cygwin DLL is unloaded from memory > > (at least Taskinfo does not see this file as open anymore !) > > Where can this information be kept then ??? > >Could be a buffering technique of W95. I have just read the Microsoft >KB article Q128932 "How Windows 95 Resolves Shortcut Links" but it >doesn't obtain any additional information. Using strace seems to indicate that the file test.h.lnk is read! Should I send you the binary link file and the strace output. Pierre Muller Institut Charles Sadron 6,rue Boussingault F 67083 STRASBOURG CEDEX (France) mailto:muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr Phone : (33)-3-88-41-40-07 Fax : (33)-3-88-41-40-99 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple