Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:36:27 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Brian Keener cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems compiling trivial C program. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Brian Keener wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > > (no)winsymlinks - if set, Cygwin creates symlinks as Windows shortcuts with > > a special header and the R/O attribute set. If not set, Cygwin creates > > symlinks as plain files with a magic number, a path and the system attribute > > set. Defaults to set. > > I've read the CYGWIN environment settings before but sure don't remember seeing > this one. Learned something new. ;-) Now what happens if we change this in mid > stream - also see below. The usual answer: try and see. > > NB: setup creates the magic-number/system-attribute always. > > Three questions here - > 1) call me stupid - what is NB. "Nota Bene" - "important note" (Latin). [Er, should I really call you stupid? ;-)] > 2) Is this correct for setup - I see this default on a new install but > shouldn't it handle based on CYGWIN environment if updating .... But .... then > what happens if I change the setting - see question above and Question 3. Yes it is. Setup has built-in code that creates symlinks, which doesn't depend on the CYGWIN variable. Besides, CYGWIN may not be set globally. > 3) Can both methods work simultaneously. If setup does it one way and CYGWIN > Environment default is the other - will I have broken symlinks. You shouldn't. They usually coexist peacefully. Unless Windows (or a Windows administrator with restless fingers) starts going around changing attributes. > bk Hope this helps, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/