Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:07:17 -0500
From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke-nospam@tibco.com>
Subject: Re: Cygwin and Interix interoperability?
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I don't get it.  We're using .lnk symlinks for quite some time and open
> works transparently with them.

Sorry; clarification (again): open() in Windows, outside of Cygwin. I.e. 
if I try to open a path in Notepad that contains a symlink, it doesn't 
work with Cygwin's .lnk's. It *does* work with real NFS symlinks.

>> At any rate, Cygwin *isn't* the Windows API... Why shouldn't Cygwin be
>> allowed to get it right for those API's that ask for POSIX-style
>> permissions?
> 
> Cygwin is running in the Windows subsystem, Interix isn't.  Cygwin can
> only use functions in the Win32 API, or in the native NT API as far as
> the call is allowed from user space.

Explorer is able to retrieve these. Thus, I'm assuming that there /is/ 
an NT API way of doing it. Maybe I'm wrong.

I'll keep you posted if I ever get around to messing with this stuff.

-- 
Matthew
If you can't use a real OS, at least use Cygwin to fake one!

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