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Subject:  Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin
Date:  Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:53:28 -0500
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Jonathan Lanier wrote:
> Also, because (I know the FAQ
> says not to say this, but I think it's useful information in this case)
> we have a much older version of Cygwin (cygcheck reports v1.5.14) that
> works flawlessly with CIFS and does not suffer the same problems.  So,
> at the very least, it appears that something changed in Cygwin that is
> now exposing the undesired behavior.

This should be screaming "way to narrow down the problem" at you; IOW 
you should try your test with various versions of cygwin1.dll, doing a 
binary search, until you have a more specific idea of when the behavior 
"broke".

-- 
Matthew
Only Joe suffers from schizophrenia. The rest of us enjoy it.


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