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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure, but I think symlinkD's are real directories with a file in them
>> that points to the target.
> 
> Nope.  All of the aforementioned Windows objects are reparse points.
> 
> 
> Corinna
----
	Ug...As soon as I unmounted the invalid drive and mounted something
valid, the problem went away.  Very weird.  Now it's not coming back.

	I just reinstalled Win 7 (for the 4th time, but who's counting!) last weekend, so my problems may have been 'eaten' by my reinstall. 

	I suppose I could try other ways to break it again, but... 
honestly, I'm not sure I really want to, given all the hassles I 
have getting things *not* to break!

	I'm trying out a roaming profile to see if I can keep some of my
settings/personal registry through my next reinstall (at this point I think
it's just a matter of when, not if).

	Overall cygwin is probably at least as stable as the OS ;-).

	Ok, maybe a bit more.  :-)

-l


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