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Re: Alternate symlink usage
- To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Alternate symlink usage
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:42:33 +0100
- References: <20000311115929.A13893@cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Chris Faylor wrote:
>
> Corinna,
> Is it possible that we could use the NTSEC stuff to store information
> about whether a file is a symbolic link? I talked to Jeremy Allison
> at Linux Expo and he said that he was doing lots of stuff with security
> type information for samba so if we could do this we might be able to
> have symbolic links on UNIX network drives.
>
> Is this possible?
I deny giving evidence. My first fast answer would be "no" but
I'm not sure. Would Jeremy talk with me about that problem?
Do you have his email address?
Corinna