From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: problem with symbolic links across filesystems
21 Aug 1998 20:44:11 GMT
Message-ID: <6rkm6r$nia$1@cronkite.cygnus.com>
References: <9808200939 DOT ZM2327 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT sunsgc DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com>
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In article <9808200939 DOT ZM2327 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT sunsgc DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com>,
ChadyS <sgc AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com> wrote:
>I have recently started working with the b19.1 version of the cygwin32 tools,
>and I am very much interested in using the symbolic link capability.  I have
>found a problem using symbolic links across filesystems.
>
>Here is the setup:
>directory	d:/da/db
>directory	c:/ca
>
>ln -s d:/da/db c:/ca/cb
>
>If you are in /ca, you can cd to cb without problems.
>
>You can't, however, cd to /ca/cb.  The problem is realpath shows the following
>path for /ca/cb:	/ca/d:/da/db

Use the cygwin nomenclature for referencing disks devices:

ln -s //d/da/db //c/ca/cb
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