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RE: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?


At 09:56 PM 2/3/2004, Rafael Kitover you wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of
>>Robert Collins
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 4:36 PM
>>To: Robert R Schneck
>>Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
>>Subject: Re: update via setup.exe removed NTFS junction?
>>
>>On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:25, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>>
>>> In fact you are correct.  setup.log.full contains:
>>> 2004/02/03 22:59:17 Uninstalling man
>>> ...
>>> rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache/man
>>> rmdir C:\cygwin/var/cache
>>> rmdir C:\cygwin/var
>>
>>> Indeed, calling rmdir on a junction point will remove it, I suppose
>>> since there's an empty placeholder which gets removed.
>>>
>>>
>>> > Short answer is: 'don't do that'.
>>>
>>> Reasonably good advice.  But it's possible that this should be
>>> considered a bug: uninstalling man shouldn't even try to get rid of var,
>>> perhaps?
>>
>>Nope. When uninstalling, directories are cleaned up. I'm not going to
>>special case 'uninstall completely' when we don't need to.
>>
>>Sounds to me like the windows API has yet another idiocy.
>
>Maybe either Cygwin or fileutils could have some support for NTFS junctions,
>since they sound like a useful feature, or symlinks could be implemented as
>junctions. While we're throwing around unrealistic ideas anyway :)


Well, at least they're ideas that have been discussed before.



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