native symlink
James Gregurich
bayoubengal@mac.com
Fri Apr 26 23:39:00 GMT 2013
I had one of my guys test the work this morning. The creation of symlinks works fine. Did you implement a utility that can convert an existing cygwin symlink to native form?
On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 24 13:55, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>> On 4/24/2013 8:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Apr 24 08:06, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>>>> On 4/24/2013 6:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> I just applied a patch to CVS which adds AFS support as well as native
>>>>> symlink support. On AFS, native symlinks are used exclusively, on any
>>>>> other filesystem supporting native symlinks Cygwin will try to create
>>>>> them if you specify "winsymlinks:native" in the $CYGWIN environment
>>>>> variable.
>>>>>
>>>>> After mulling over this problem I found that using an environment
>>>>> solution is better than the mount point solution, because this allows
>>>>> on-the-fly creating of native symlinks in certain scenarios, while the
>>>>> default can be kept at using Cygwin sysfile symlinks, which are still
>>>>> better suited for a POSIX environment.
>>>>>
>>>>> For completeness, you can also specify "winsymlinks:lnk" or just
>>>>> "winsymlinks". This will result in trying to generate shortcut
>>>>> type symlinks, as before.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jeffrey, please give especially AFS at try here.
>>>>
>>>> I've confirmed that the unrecognized reparse point fix in 1.7.18-1
>>>> does work. Unfortunately, I'm still unable to get gcc (actually cc1)
>>>> to build even a simple hello world c program. Is there is a nightly
>>>> binary distribution I can use to test from?
>>>
>>> i686:
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>>
>> I have confirmed that the change works on AFS without the environment
>> setting.
>
> Cool. Thanks for the feedback.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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