On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 12:22:42PM +0100, Rainer Dunker wrote: >"Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 28.12.04 11:40:39: >> > These are supposed to be symbolic links to the executables in the /usr/bin >> > directory, but - for whatever reason - the setup program did not install >> > them in a way that they were used as symlinks afterwards (for example, >> > ar.exe is a text file with contents "!<symlink>/usr/bin/ar.exe"). So I >> > removed them and created symlinks to the proper executables manually; >> > after that, the problem was gone. >> >> This is the correct content of valid Cygwin Symlinks and for me >> NT Explorer shows them as type "S" for symlink too. The symlinks >> should work fine from within any Cygwin based shell (bash, zsh, ...). > >I remember having seen that on W2K and maybe XP, but on my current NT4 box >it's apparently different. >This is how a properly working symlink, created with ln -s, looks like: > >As seen by 'ls -l': >lrwxrwxrwx 1 myname mkgroup_ 15 Dec 27 16:00 ar.exe -> >/usr/bin/ar.exe > >As seen by 'cmd /c dir': >27.12.04 16:00 116 ar.exe.lnk > >This is the hexlified contents of ar.exe.lnk: >00000000: 4c00 0000 0114 0200 0000 0000 c000 0000 L............... >00000010: 0000 0046 0c00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ...F............ >00000020: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ >00000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 0000 ................ >00000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0f00 2f75 ............../u >00000050: 7372 2f62 696e 2f61 722e 6578 6515 0048 sr/bin/ar.exe..H >00000060: 3a5c 7075 625c 6379 675c 6269 6e5c 6172 :\pub\cyg\bin\ar >00000070: 2e65 7865 .exe > >The Windows Explorer properly handles this as 'ar.exe', >a shortcut to H:\pub\cyg\bin\ar.exe. > >I can't help it, but that's what I see. I have no idea whether this difference >in storing symlinks is a property of different Windows or Cygwin versions - >or whatever.
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