From: john AT exmachina DOT net (John Mullee) Subject: Re: link cmd 31 Oct 1998 03:34:19 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19981030161600.185f0c86.cygnus.gnu-win32@exmachina.net> References: <5060200020916743000002L032*@MHS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com At 17:00 1998-10-28 +0000, you wrote: >I'm using B19 gnuwin32 on a NT machine. When i try to link from a remote file >to a local file as in >ln -s //l/build/toto/foo.c /build/foo.c the link works >but if i edit the file i only have >!//l/build/toto/foo.c instead of the file. How can i have the contents >of the file without copying the file ? I think the problem comes from Cygnus\B19\src\winsup\syscalls.cc; stat seems to fail, or for some reason or other permission is denied... bash-2.01$ ln -dvfi /var/john ./jm create hard link ./jm to /var/john ln: cannot create hard link `./jm' to `/var/john': Permission denied bash-2.01$ mkpasswd -l Administrator::500:513:::/bin/sh bash-2.01$ chown Administrator . chown: Administrator: invalid user Hm. bash-2.01$ echo something > there bash-2.01$ ln -s there here bash-2.01$ cat here something bash-2.01$ notepad here (shows !there ) John. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".