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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
Subject: Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:20:41 -0800
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On 12/15/2011 07:40 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> I'm having difficulty seeing how what you have described could work 
> unless the consumers of these files are looking for symlinks only, 
> which your example above contradicts.  And both of the ".bashrc" files 
> are registering as plain files, so I think you're right that the file 
> system on which they reside is coming into play, assuming the output 
> above is from Cygwin's 'ls'.  But even if you had ".bashrc" and 
> ".bashrc.lnk" with the former being a UNIX-form of symlink and the 
> latter being the Cygwin one, I'd still expect Cygwin to recognize 
> ".bashrc" first and only go looking for the .lnk version if it 
> couldn't find that.
I would think that Cygwin should see the .lnk version first. No? I guess 
not. I thought it worked that way before.
> The output of strace may convince you of that as well. ;-)  It might 
> actually work as you describe it though if
> you can get Cygwin to think that it can't open the former.  I could 
> see that being the case if the UNIX symlink was created by a user ID 
> Cygwin didn't recognize, for example.
I've backed off to using hardlinks which work on both systems but it 
doesn't work for directories.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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