X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:50:11 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Finding junction points in cygwin Message-ID: <20091109195011.GM26344@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <26260606.post@talk.nabble.com> <416096c60911082351l7e3415e2s28f10549f3cf4136@mail.gmail.com> <20091109120333.GF26344@calimero.vinschen.de> <26269606.post@talk.nabble.com> <20091109171803.GK26344@calimero.vinschen.de> <26270509.post@talk.nabble.com> <20091109180913.GA14129@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091109180913.GA14129@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Nov 9 19:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 9 09:39, aputerguy wrote: > > > > Corinna writes.. > > > Try Cygwin 1.7. It recognizes directory junctions as symlinks. > > > > $ uname -r > > 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) > > > > But don't see any symlinks... > > Uh, I see. Don't use the junction tool, use cmd's mklink instead. > junction.exe creates directory symlinks which can't be easily recognized > as directory junctions, at least not using the default technique. > > I'll look into supporting these weird junctions as well. Not quite as weird. The test got actually simpler now. I also set the return code of rename(2) to EBUSY when you try to rename a volume junction. Otherwise Windows returns an error code equivalent to EXDEV and mv(1) starts to move the directory over by copying its entire content (cross-device mv). HTH, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple