X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:54:00 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin Message-ID: <20080206205400.GX5866@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <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> <20080206101353.GQ5866@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080206101353.GQ5866@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) 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 On Feb 6 11:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 5 12:08, Jonathan Lanier wrote: > > 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? :) > > It would sure be nice, but it's quite hard to get to. > > I'll ask on the samba developer list if there's interest to expose > symlinks to Windows apps which know how to handle them. For those of you interested what's going on, I started a discussion on the samba-technical mailing list. I proposed to use Extended Attributes, because AFAICS, it's the most simple and most transparent way to handle symlinks. http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2008-February/057818.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/