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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:14:55 -0500
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On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

<snip>

>> No.  If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would
>
> It isn't.  NFS only handles POSIX permissions.  However, if you're using
> the Microsoft NFS client, you can convert the Cygwin syste-type symlinks
> to "real" symlinks on the target filesystem.  These are supported as well
> by Cygwin.

Ah cool.  You know, I think I remember you mentioning that before. :-)

> However, please note that Microsoft's NFS client does not support UTF-8
> as target charset.
>
>> be to convert the
>> symbolic links to their "winsymlinks" format.  If course, doing that
>> means you loose
>> UTF character support.  See
>> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>
>> for more on this option.
>
> Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear?  I only compared
> the old and the new format.  The new format using UTF-16 is used by both
> styles of symlinks, the SYSTEM and the .lnk style.

OK, I didn't get that from my reading of the description.  I'd recommend
adding that path names of either style now use UTF-16, just to be clear.
I doubt this is a critical issue of course but it's worthwhile to make this
distinction to avoid confusion.

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