On Jan 15 13:21, Roland Schwingel wrote: > Hi... > > Well... I am a late converter I know... But I am in the progress of doing > so. > I am still running cygwin 1.3.22 and now setted up 1.5.25-7 but encountered > a problem > with cp when working on a folder (hosted on a samba share on a linux box) > containing a symlink. > > My $CYGWIN is in both cases set to "binmode smbntsec" while it does not > make > any difference when I put it to "binmode ntsec". My /etc/passwd is in both > cygwin > installations correctly populated (AFAIK). > > Receipe to reproduce: > > 1. Login to your linux box in your homeaccount. > 2. mkdir -p ~/tmp/test > 3. cd ~/tmp/test > 4. mkdir subdir > 5. ln -s subdir symlink > 6. logout > 7. Start cygwin 1.3.22 > 8. cp -rp //server/share/path/to/your/home/tmp/test /tmp > 9. <everything fine> > 10. Start cygwin 1.5 installation > 11. cp -rp //server/share/path/to/your/home/tmp/test /tmp > 12. Error message appears: > > cp: will not create hard link: '/tmp/test/symlink' to directory > '/tmp/test/subdir' > > Obviously cygwin 1.5 is now detecting the symlink correctly while 1.3 was > not because it copied > the symlinked folder as folder not as link (even when I did cp -a). > > Maybe this problem is not related to cygwin more to the cp program itself. > > Yet this causes a problem because in various locations I have some symlinks > on my servers...
Here's a question: What do you actually expect? The fact that symlinks are symlinks is not transmitted from Samba to the Windows client. From the Windows client perspective the symlink is just a directory. So, in the 1.3 case you get two directories with the same content after the cp. In the 1.5 case you only copy the original directory. I think that the 1.5 behaviour is actually better. Consider a directory with many Gigs content and symlink pointing to it. Either way, the actual content will be copied. Just in 1.3 it gets copied twice, while in 1.5 it will be copied only once. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
