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: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:37:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Minor annoyance : symbolic links and Windows shortcuts In-Reply-To: <20030923132646.GZ9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <20030923132646.GZ9981@cygbert.vinschen.de> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:37:29PM +0200, jurgen.defurne@philips.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I noticed this before, but since the solution is simple, > > though a little bit annoying, I did not mention it. > > > > I think this is also only an issue for people who use > > cygwin from a shared drive, and the shared drive > > comes from Samba, not native Windows. > > > > Anyhow, I have to recreate manually all symbolic > > links, and I have to delete all Windows shortcuts > > from my directories, because they do not work. > > Can you elaborate on this? What means they "don't work"? I can create > symlinks on my samba share fine and they also work so the above is not > very useful information. Magic formula: "Simple testcase". > > Corinna It would be helpful if Jurgen posted the output of getfacl on both the working and the non-working links. I suspect this could be the same problem as the one reported earlier, with shortcuts on SMB drives not having the proper readonly attribute. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/