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Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux


On 12/14/2011 2:32 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
On 12/14/2011 12:14 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Might CYGWIN=winsymlinks help?
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
I don't see how. I think that I need the .lnk portion of the file. It's not clear to me from that link's description that setting winsymlinks gives me .lnk.

Hmmm... Just tested. Ah yes! The winsymlinks seems to do the trick! Thanks!
More:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.symlinkstoppedworking
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.api.symlinks

Thanks for the references...
I'm not sure this is working as well as I had hoped (or remembered). I think the question boils down to, given a Unix symlink of say .bash_login and a Cygwin symlink of say .bash_login.lnk, which does Cygwin read when logging it? I would have hoped that Cygwin would always see the .lnk file whereas Unix would see the regular symlink. That's how I thought this worked before. But it doesn't seem to be working that way. In fact I see:

$ ls -l .bash*
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers 7179 Dec 15 15:35 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers   29 Dec 15 14:36 .bash_login
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers   29 Dec 15 14:36 .bash_login
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers   29 Dec 15 14:36 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 adefaria clearusers   29 Dec 15 14:36 .bashrc

When I login bash see the Unix formated .bash_login symlink and chokes. I can remove this Unix symlink from the Unix side and log in with bash again and it works. If I remake the symlink on the Unix side it fails! :-(

I don't remember this being a problem before. I fear this is a Samba config thing...

Note: CYGWIN has winsymlinks in it...
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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