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Link behaviour when accessing REAL unix via NFS
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- Subject: Link behaviour when accessing REAL unix via NFS
- From: kh at wg dot icl dot co dot uk (Kevin Hughes)
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 97 14:26:41 BST
I hanvnt got the equipment to try this (yet) but am interested in how bash under
win95 sees a remotely mounted UNIX filesystem when using NFS.
I envisage having an NT box with NFS access to a SUN system. I want to run bash etc. on the NT platform with access to the filestore on the SUN. I have many
scripts which do things like
if test -h $file
i.e I am tring to determine if $file is a link or not. How will this behave on
the bash under NT? I can think of at least two possibilities
it will work
it fail because
the signature in $file which cygwin32 recognises as a link
indicator is not there
the NFS filestore automatically follows the UNIX link when
cygwin opens/read the file to get at the signature
Will the patches from Sergey make any difference?
Any info much appreciated
Kevin
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