I like having only one home directory. It's extremely convenient to have
the same settings and the like both when on Cygwin and when on Linux.
Often home directories are on NAS's and the like and served out via smb.
Somewhere along the line Cygwin's symlink implementation changed again.
It used to be that symlinks ended in .lnk, which was sort of a pain but
workable. One nice thing is that they didn't clash with Linux symlinks.
A Cygwin symlink is not the same as a Linux symlink and so you could have:
$ ln -s a_file.txt link1 # in Cygwin
$ ln -s a_file.txt link1 # in Linux
and you'd end up having a symlink with the same name, link1, pointing to
the same file from either Cygwin or Linux. This is because the Linux
symlink is named just "link1" and the Cygwin symlink is named "link1.txt".
But now Cygwin names its symlink "link1". When you then log into Linux
and try to access that link it doesn't work.
Where this is happening for me is that I put all of my rc files under
~/.rc and then I symlink them to ~ as appropriate. So, for example I
have a ~/.rc/inputrc. I then symlink them to ~/.inputrc. Under the old
scenario I'd get a ~/.inputrc.lnk for Cygwin and a ~/.inputrc on Linux.
Under the new scenario I get a clash.
Is there any way around this?
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