DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 92C563857830
MIME-Version: 1.0
References: <CAGHpTBLp9tVES8=ggRkNk3HZLr-QT7n79ewKadTkWXyshBfcAw@mail.gmail.com>
 <CAGHpTBJHXXE6YUXjEX8wtE9wnX_wCz5HhrDKsJ_Dz2z1_f4LuQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <YJQrCvv79bHcH3Rz@calimero.vinschen.de>
 <CAGHpTBJ5L1Y4RU+n7PVr6vRCeEBkFPUgnVa8JGZDKcGt7n7JBQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <YJWvMVkkiqy4rmBc@calimero.vinschen.de>
In-Reply-To: <YJWvMVkkiqy4rmBc@calimero.vinschen.de>
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 14:35:40 +0300
Message-ID: <CAGHpTBLEXRuox0yXKJOfkQO48EtVV3PgXYH0J98HrbassMRdgg@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: realpath issue with native[strict] symlinks
To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
From: Orgad Shaneh via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Reply-To: Orgad Shaneh <orgads@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: "Cygwin" <cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com>

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 12:20 AM Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> I reworked the code handling native symlinks to handle virtual drives
> as well.  It might even be a tiny bit quicker now.
>
> The changes have a behavioral change, but I think this is for the
> better: Virtual drives are not treated as drives anymore, but as
> symlinks.  Given they are just pointers to other drives or directories,
> tha't much closer to reality.  I. e., in case of my above virtual drive
> T:, what you'll see in the /cygdrive dir (unless your cygdrive prefix is
> / only) is this:
>
> $ ls /cygdrive
> $ ls -lG /mnt
> total 16
> d---r-x---+ 1 TrustedInstaller  0 Apr 29 21:07 c
> drwxr-xr-x  1 corinna           0 Dec 31  1979 e
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 corinna          32 May  6 20:43 t -> /cygdrive/c/cygwin64/home/corinna/tmp
>
> I uploaded new developer snapshots to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> for testing.

Thank you very much. Looks good.

- Orgad

-- 
Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple