Greetings, Linda Walsh! >> > I was copying a directory of files, some of which were windows junctions. >> > These got converted to a cygwin symlink. Although I am impressed that >> > there >> > are such a thing for those OSs/drives that do not support such things, for >> > those >> > that do, I think it would be good to keep the copy a junction. Otherwise, >> > things can get messy.
>> > Can this be corrected? > --- > (BTW -- you do know about the 'winsymlinks:native' setting in the > CYGWIN environment variable? It might be of some use.) > Andrey wrote: >> Unfortunately, even on systems, that do support symlinks functionality, >> it is restricted by UAC and not easily unlocked. > --- > Actually that's control by Windows group policy. Yes, I know. But when UAC is enabled, it overriding this policy setting. That's why I said that you need either admin console, or UAC turned off. > It's alot like whether not 'users' can control 'mounts' on linux. > It can be allowed, but doing so categorically might not be considered > wise. Microsoft does not follow common logic. >> You'd need an admin shell or a user profile with UAC turned off and >> permissions correctly configured to exploit native symlinks. > --- > Or the system administrator would have to enable user-control of local > symlinks. ... > On my windows machine, unprivileged users are able to create all 4 types > of symbolic links. Do you have UAC enabled? >> And Cygwin does not support creation of directory junctions to the best >> of my knowledge. :( > --- > Neither does linux support creation of user-controlled mounts. However, Windows allows creation of directory junctions just fine. But blocks Symlinks. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, November 3, 2015 02:34:22 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
