Brian Keener wrote: > Then for whatever reason, I cannot remember if Max or Chris suggested > it or I found something on the list archive about it - but I found > that the read only checkbox on my links on my w2k system was no > longer checked. Updating the properties on the symlinks via windows > properties and checking the box for read-only (or using the attrib > command) turned them back into symlinks as they should be. I then > searched for all the symlinks that I thought should be there and > rechecked the Read-only flag and things were back to normal. Now I > think I saw this in the archive because there it was referred to as > the system flag and I could only find a readonly but it worked.
Clarification: >From the User's Guide: [Talking about the CYGWIN environment variable] (no)winsymlinks - if set, Cygwin creates symlinks as Windows shortcuts with a special header and the R/O attribute set. If not set, Cygwin creates symlinks as plain files with a magic number, a path and the system attribute set. Defaults to set. NB: setup creates the magic-number/system-attribute always. (Except in postinstall scripts, when the installed ln -s is invoked, which honours the CYGWIN setting). Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
