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 Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 23:45:46 +0400 From: egor duda X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.45) Personal Reply-To: egor duda Organization: deo X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <183627572852.20010507234546@logos-m.ru> To: Konstantin Isakov CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Symlinking in win9x is now possible at kernel-level! In-reply-To: <2691945242.20010507230959@online.ru> References: <2691945242.20010507230959@online.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! Monday, 07 May, 2001 Konstantin Isakov ikm@online.ru wrote: KI> Can't say that the implementation is very clear, but it works, KI> symlinks are really followed for *all* programs! The main and quite KI> obvious limitation is that the driver I wrote works only in KI> Windows'9x (and ME possibly)... i hate to play devil's advocate, but there's some points you may wish to consider. the problem with "native" symlinks is that many native programs don't expect them, an can be easily confused. for example, symlinks can (possibly) be cycled /foo/bar points to /foo, for example. have you tried such configuration? how about pressing F3 in explorer and traversing file system? on unix, symlink concept is supported by various system calls, lstat(), for instance. win32 lacks them, so native programs may go wrong. maybe you should make this driver to be available only to programs that specifically state that they are able to handle symlinks? KI> If you need it, you're welcome to download it from KI> http://sourceforge.net/projects/symlink9x KI> Although everything is in pre-alpha state, it has been working KI> for me nicely for a week or two already. KI> Just an announcement, hope I haven't violated any policies ;) btw, did you test their performance? is your implementation much faster than cygwin's? Egor. mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple