X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:01:50 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with nfs Message-ID: <20120425080150.GA21596@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4F9639D5.60200@samsung.com> <4F9653E9.2090307@samsung.com> <20120424073351.GC17620@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120424141119.GI25385@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F978E0B.5080507@samsung.com> <20120425071459.GX25385@calimero.vinschen.de> <4F97ABE3.6060600@samsung.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F97ABE3.6060600@samsung.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 25 11:46, Fedin Pavel wrote: > On 25.04.2012 11:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Cygwin understands NFS symlinks just fine, and when it creates symlinks > >on NFS, these are *real* symlinks, not Cygwin-type fake symlinks. When > >it recognizes SFU NFS shares, it uses special functionality provided by > >the SFU NFS driver to read and create symlinks and to access file > >metadata on these shares. > > Wow, i didn't know, sorry. To tell the truth i didn't know that SFU > code will provide these functions. I suggested it's just enough for > Windows' own needs. Think of the SFU POSIX layer, formerly called Interix. 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