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Re: Cygwin running from CD and symlinks



>>>>> "Chris" == Chris  <Faylor cgf@c...> writes:

 Chris> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 01:34:30PM -0700, Rui-Tao Dong wrote:
 >> I made a CD from Linux side and try to achieve the same thing.  he
 >> file content on the CD is correct,
 >> (!<symlink>xemacs-21.1.10.exe^@), with a permission of r--r--r--.
 >> However, it is not recognized as symlink by Cygwin.  I read the
 >> Cygwin doc and it mentioned system bit.  What is it in Unix terms?
 >> How do I set it with mkisofs?

 Chris> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC54

But it works just fine from Samba.  Cygwin doesn't follow symlink AFTER I
dumped it to a CD.

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