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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:46:43 +0400
From: Fedin Pavel <p DOT fedin AT samsung DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problems with nfs
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On 25.04.2012 11:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Cygwin understands NFS symlinks just fine, and when it creates symlinks
> on NFS, these are *real* symlinks, not Cygwin-type fake symlinks.  When
> it recognizes SFU NFS shares, it uses special functionality provided by
> the SFU NFS driver to read and create symlinks and to access file
> metadata on these shares.

  Wow, i didn't know, sorry. To tell the truth i didn't know that SFU 
code will provide these functions. I suggested it's just enough for 
Windows' own needs.

-- 
  Kind regards
  Pavel Fedin
  Expert engineer, Samsung Moscow research center


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