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Re: AW: [bulk] - Re: Bash completion and symlinks problem


On 02/01/2010 10:53 AM, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
Hi Corinna,

>  Von: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com]
>  Gesendet: Montag, 1. Februar 2010 16:18
>  An:cygwin@cygwin.com
>  Betreff: [bulk] - Re: Bash completion and symlinks problem
>
>  On Feb  1 12:51, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
>  >
>  >  Hi all,
>  >
>  >  another problem after updating cgwin . The bash completion don't work for
> symlinks .
>  >
>  >  assume having a /cygdrive/c/bin directory which contains symlinks to scripts
> in a central directory on our file sever say/cygdrive/x /centraltools/
>  >
>  >  eg.
>  >
>  >    /cygdrive/c/bin/dosomething.pl ->  /cygdrive/x /centraltools/dosomething.pl
>  >
>  >  The strange thing is, old links as well as new ones executed fine. Only they
> don't appear in the completion.
>  >
>  >  Can someone tell me why ??
>
>  Work for me.   Your symlink points to a script which has no execute
>  permissions (if "acl" is set on the target mount), or the script doesn't start
>  with a shebang.
Mount says:

C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (text,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
X: on /cygdrive/x type nwfs (text,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
                       ^^^
See the recent archive threads on NetWare file systems.

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