X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:09:26 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7 setup.exe overwrites softlink for home Message-ID: <20100407080926.GB27428@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1270563217.20907.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <4BBB9D08.3090403@whack.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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 Apr 6 15:54, Tim McDaniel wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Peter Wohlers wrote: > >>Since upgrading to 1.7, I keep seeing weird problems with deletion > >>of my homedir symlink. > >> > >>Before running setup: > >>pwohlers@h1n1 ~ > >>$ ll / > >>[...] > >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Domain Users 18 2010-04-04 14:31 home -> > >>/cygdrive/d/Users/ > >>[...] > >>After running setup: > >>[...] > >>Setup seems to have deleted the softlink for /home > > > >Well... yes. That's probably a bit unfortunate. The current mechanism > >always creates a couple of directories if they don't already exist: > > > ... > > /home > ... > >If the directory couldn't be created because a non-directory file > >uses the same name, it deletes that file and tries to create the > >directory again. It's not perfect, but at least we know that the > >directories exist, afterwards. We could add a mode which drops the > >aggressive creation strategy, but I only see that *could* make sense > >for home. > > Um, so I suppose it's doing a test for symlinks specifically. Why not There's no such test. Setup is a native Win32 application, not a Cygwin application. 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