X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45876A7B.90606@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:28:43 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: symlink problem References: <742bfe100612181248t59ca849fq710e40ba6a572721@mail.gmail.com> <45870539.4030504@cygwin.com> <742bfe100612181743y5d606f9cg4a96bcc1ea657922@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <742bfe100612181743y5d606f9cg4a96bcc1ea657922@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Koichi Yamaguchi wrote: > Hi Larry, > > Thank you. It worked. > Now I figured out that if a folder, in which cygwin will be installed, > doesn't include SYSTEM user permission, installation program > cannot set appropriate attribute to symbolic links automatically. That's a "feature" of Windows which can be disabled. If you bring up the properties tabs for the parent directory and disable inheritance of permissions on the permissions tab, you won't see this behavior. An alternative is just what you did. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/