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Subject: Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:47:51 -0800
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On 12/14/2011 2:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> On 12/14/2011 12:14 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Might CYGWIN=winsymlinks help?
>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
> I don't see how. I think that I need the .lnk portion of the file. 
> It's not clear to me from that link's description that setting 
> winsymlinks gives me .lnk.
>
> Hmmm... Just tested. Ah yes! The winsymlinks seems to do the trick! 
> Thanks!
>> More:
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.symlinkstoppedworking
>> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.api.symlinks
>>
> Thanks for the references...
I'm not sure this is working as well as I had hoped (or remembered). I 
think the question boils down to, given a Unix symlink of say 
.bash_login and a Cygwin symlink of say .bash_login.lnk, which does 
Cygwin read when logging it? I would have hoped that Cygwin would always 
see the .lnk file whereas Unix would see the regular symlink. That's how 
I thought this worked before. But it doesn't seem to be working that 
way. In fact I see:

$ ls -l .bash*
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers 7179 Dec 15 15:35 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers   29 Dec 15 14:36 .bash_login
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers   29 Dec 15 14:36 .bash_login
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers   29 Dec 15 14:36 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers   29 Dec 15 14:36 .bashrc

When I login bash see the Unix formated .bash_login symlink and chokes. 
I can remove this Unix symlink from the Unix side and log in with bash 
again and it works. If I remake the symlink on the Unix side it fails! :-(

I don't remember this being a problem before. I fear this is a Samba 
config thing...

Note: CYGWIN has winsymlinks in it...
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not 
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