X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <20100304094847.GZ17293@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20100304094847.GZ17293@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alfred von Campe Subject: Re: Strange symlink behaviour Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 06:41:53 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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 > Real symlinks on a remote CIFS system are not recognized by Cygwin or > Windows either. Rather, they are converted to real files by the > underlying CIFS server so that "dumb" Windows clients don't get > confused. Ah, that makes sense and explains some behavior I was seeing. > Symlinks created with and for Cygwin are not real symlinks (with an > exception). They are files with special properties so that they are > recognized as symlinks by Cygwin. Does that also apply to a symlink extracted from a tar file created on Linux? > Bottom line is, if you create symlinks via Cygwin, they will only be > recognized by Cygwin clients. If you want symlinks which work on all > systems (NFS->Linux, CIFS->Windows, CIFS->Cygwin), you have to create > the symlinks using a Linux client. That's what I was afraid of. My real issue is that this all works when I extract the tar ball into an empty directory, but it doesn't when the symlink already exists and a short cut is created instead. If the "rm //path/to/share/*" would simply delete the symlink I would not be having this problem. Wait, a thought just occurred to me. What if I delete the symlink first instead of deleting "*". I'll try this when I get to work today and report back with the results. Vielen Dank, Alfred -- 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