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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:17:23 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Treating Junctions consistently, as "normal dirs" as w/linux "bind"-type mount
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Greetings, L A Walsh!

> Andrey Repin wrote:
>> I would argue against all junctions being treated blindly.
>> The difference with bind mounts in Linux is that in Linux 
>> you don't have the
>> information available within the filesystem itself, and have 
>> no other option,
>> than to treat them as regular directories.
>> Only direct volume junctions cause an issue, and this is what 
>> should be fixed,
>> if possible, not sidetracked with questionable workarounds.
> ----
>         Could you describe the benefits of your proposed solution?

>         You do know that MS originally called junctions "mountpoints",
> right?  So why would cygwin treating them as such be a "questionable 
> workaround"?

How they are called, and how they behave is a two different questions.

>         How would you want to treat them?

Easy way: As symlinks, just like now, unless it's a volume mount point that
can't be normalized to a disk letter.

Preferred way: Fix volume mounts accessibility
 \\?\{UUID} -> /dev/disk/by-uuid/UUID


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, March 10, 2017 16:10:57

Sorry for my terrible english...


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