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Subject: Re: Windows 7, cygwin > 3.1.4 symlink issue
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On 8/24/2020 5:43 PM, Roland Roberts wrote:
> I have one machine, a company machine which makes it hard to post 
> details, which is running Windows 7. We run cygwin as our development 
> environment for Java, but Java is installed as a Windows program. The 
> scripts that do the builds are bash scripts that pull down updated 
> code from svn, then run unit tests. All of the cygwin bits work fine, 
> but when Java is launched to run the unit tests, it runs into problems 
> with reading files that were created as symlinks in cygwin. Note that 
> this does *not* happen with cygwin 3.1.4, but does with higher 
> versions (up through 3.1.7).
>
> Possibly related, the permissions on installed files is odd if I roll 
> back from > 3.1.4 to 3.1.4. The files that were updated with the later 
> version can't be deleted. The permissions on, for example, an Emacs 
> upgraded under 3.1.6 or 3.1.7 show "Unknown User" when I downgrade 
> just cygwin and I can't run it. I have to upgrade cygwin, uninstall 
> Emacs, downgrade cygwin then reinstall.
>
> Other users in the company have had their machines upgraded/replaced 
> with Windows 10 and don't seem to have this issue. Eventually, mine 
> will be replaced as well, but in the meantime, later versions of 
> cygwin can't be used.

Okay, I have no idea what form of dyslexia struck me when I wrote all 
those version numbers, but I've edited the above since it wasn't 1.x but 
3.1.x

roland

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