X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_05,BOTNET X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4EF0C977.2080506@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:44:23 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux References: <4EE90067.9020109@bopp.net> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A43E78632@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <4EEABDB8.4020307@cygwin.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 12/16/2011 11:46 AM, Jon Clugston wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> 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. > > This would be a performance disaster - forcing a check for 'x.lnk' > every time the software tried to access file 'x'. I doubt that it > worked that way before. Correct. It did not work this way for the reason you stated. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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