X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Envelope-From: X-Envelope-To: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:08:19 -0800 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080205142712.GA840@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20080204150853.GD5866@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080204205620.GA2720@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <02fb01c86795$9aeb5080$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20080205133450.GB307@calimero.vinschen.de> <032c01c867fd$c573da30$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20080205142712.GA840@calimero.vinschen.de> From: "Jonathan Lanier" To: X-Spam-Score: -11.44 () ALL_TRUSTED,USER_IN_WHITELIST X-BorderEnvelope-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m15KBiGn015852 >> Yep, and it doesn't help. It's solely down to the secureshare >> stuff not presenting through the standard NT api; it's only visible >> by using the shell extension dll. >> >> (... which makes me wonder, could we possibly leverage that to do >> some useful work for us in these situations...?) > > Shure, if the DLL has a usefull documented API and a > programmer is caring (or paid) enough to actually do it. Well, I for one would love to have something like that. I wonder if NetApp could be poked/prodded to participate. Makes me think also, NetApp isn't the only CIFS server that supports Unix features - as Corinna pointed out to me earlier, apparently Samba does this as well (I haven't used Samba in years so I assumed that it could not). And that gives me a totally crazy idea - wouldn't it be nice if there were a standardized, open set of extensions to allow Windows applications to access native symlinks, attributes, and permissions over remote network shares? If there were such a thing, Cygwin could totally use that to have seamless Unix-style integration with networks, as could other applications. If such a thing doesn't exist, it should. If the CIFS protocol already supports it, it should be exposed in the Windows OS. Who do I need to vote for to make this happen? :) Also, it's very disappointing to hear about how the symlinks are implemented in Vista. Admin access? What were they thinking? Seems like if Microsoft wants to solve their problems, they should re-engineer the entire OS on top of a *nix kernel and be done with it. Kind of like Mac OS did... Oh well. -- 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/