From: lhall AT rfk DOT com (Larry Hall)
Subject: Re: problem with symbolic links across filesystems
22 Aug 1998 14:26:55 -0700
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To: "ChadyS" <sgc AT bighorn DOT dr DOT lucent DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

At 09:39 AM 8/20/98 -0600, ChadyS 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
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>Thanks in advance,
>Steve Chady


Use mounts for c: and d: and then use those UNIX-style paths when mounting.
You won't get the "<drive>:" cruft in the resulting resolution of the link,
which is what you see now and is the cause of your problem.


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