Hi all, Thank you so much for the response,and nearby for the entire cygwin Project.(Best of both worlds)"The devil is in the detail"I admire cygwin so much, and I' am overwhelmed that it can do the named pipes on paragon systemalready.I do not expect cygwin to master the symbolic links,it's too much.But if it were able master, I would sit on my chair breathless. One can download paragon athttps://www.paragon-software.com/de/home/linuxfs-windows/# it has a ten days trial period.
/usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/e Device Type : 7Characteristics : 20 Volume Name : <> Serial Number : 4229931105 Max Filenamelength : 260 Filesystemname : <ext4> Flags : 107 FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : TRUE FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS : FALSE FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : FALSE FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: TRUE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION : FALSE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : FALSE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE On Monday, December 17, 2018, 12:35:02 PM GMT+1, Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: Greetings, Simon Liesenfeld! > Hi all > There is a commercial ext3-4 file system driver for windowsLinux File > Systems für Windows | Paragon Softwarewhich enable Windows to read an write > on native ext3-4 volumes.In General cygwin works perfectly on such > volumes,even named pipes work, > but Cygwin programs do not interprete those links correctly,which are > created on such volumes.whilst symbolic links on native NTFS drives > referring files on such volumeswork perfectly. > $pwd/cygdrive/e > $ echo hallo > source > $ ln -s source sl > $ cat sl > !<symlink>▒▒source What doe /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo say about such volume? -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Monday, December 17, 2018 14:28:48 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