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On Dec 19 09:37, Karl M wrote:
> Hi All...
> 
> I see the broken links on any machine I use. I run as a restricted user, 
> except when I am installing or updating software. Here is the way I do the 
> initial install (to prevent permissions leaks)...

Well, I still can't reproduce it and I didn't get any hint that somebody
else can reproduce this.  I tried chmod -R and chown -R on directories
containing symlinks created by a former setup.exe call and the symlinks
were still symlinks afterwards.

Let's restart with my previous mail:

> >Are you sure you're using Cygwin's chmod/chown?  Did you try to run them
> >under strace and see what happens?


Corinna

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