X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4517DAA2.3050105@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:33:22 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Speeding up Cygwin deployment References: <4517D3A4 DOT 6070809 AT princeton DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <4517D3A4.6070809@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Vinod Gupta wrote: >> >> C:\cygwin\usr\share\man\man1\allec.1 >> >> C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\doc\html\atobm.1.html >> >> I don't have a system against which to check this conjecture, but if >> you do a DOS attrib on each of these files my guess is that the first >> is created as a +R symlink and the second as a +S symlink*; and if you >> do a DOS dir the first will be revealed as a .lnk file and the second >> will not. It looks to me as though the zipper you're using understands >> and can re-create files of the first sort, but the second goes wrong. >> >> (Or maybe even +S +H which might help explain its invisibility, but >> don't think so.) >> >> For different but similar reasons (the need to copy an entire Cygwin >> system to other file systems via a DVD which can faithfully transfer >> +R but not +S files whilst preserving these attributes) I have gone >> through the system re-creating all original +S symlinks as +R. If the >> above conjecture is true / looks as though it might be true, and if >> you think this re-creation might help I can send you the script. Fergus > > You are right. The first file has R and the second one has S attrib set. > So, I guess your script to change all the S attribs to R should work for > me too. Could you please send it to me. > > I am wondering: > Why would they set these html files as System files? Because they are apparently the "older style" Cygwin symlink. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/