X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:21:52 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Creating a file within Cygwin with setting SYSTEM attribute Message-ID: <20100829042152.GB32197@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4C79AEE6 DOT 3070607 AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C79AEE6.3070607@columbus.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:50:46PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: >I have access to cpio sources that I would like to add support for >copying/creating Cygwin's symbolic links. At present, any files I >create would be as regular files. Any hints as how I would set this >attribute so I could create these symbolic links. Does setting _IFLNK >in the mode automatically perform setting SYSTEM attribute? If Cygwin's cpio didn't create symbolic links then there would be something seriously wrong with it. As it turns out, it *does* work as expected so, if you're not seeing the correct behavior, then you're probably not running using the Cygwin version of cpio. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple