Hi,
I believe my backup program (CMS ABS Bounceback) is mucking with the links in
my cygwin and work directories when it is creating a backup. It doesn't appear
to affect links created by windows, only those created by cygwin. I don't
fully understand the cygwin links: there are some that end in .lnk and are
close to windows shortcuts, and there are others that don't end in .lnk and
start with !<symlink>. Both get broken. The files still exist, but I get the
message "/usr/bin/vi: /usr/bin/vi: cannot execute binary file". vi looks like
a plain file and contains "!<symlink>vim.exe". Running vim works fine.
It happened to me a few weeks ago and wasn't sure why. I re-installed cygwin &
fixed all the shortcuts in my working/compiled src directories by deleting and
recreating them. Is there an easier way to fix this? I found one post in the
archives saying try "attrib +R", but that didn't help at all, on either kind of
link.
I've searched the mailing lists and google and wasn't able to find any help for
my problem. I know people here will say it's a problem with the application,
but if I go to the manufacturer they'll say cyg-what(?), our software works
fine with windows.
Some sample links in /bin, commands executed under cygwin on windows xp.
$ ls -la vi ksh.exe.*
-rwx------+ 1 usd11620 memememe 319 Apr 18 10:24 ksh.exe.lnk
-rwx------+ 1 usd11620 Users 18 Apr 18 08:12 vi
$ attrib ksh.exe.*
C:\cygwin\bin\ksh.exe.lnk
$ attrib vi
C:\cygwin\bin\vi
$ cat vi
!<symlink>vim.exe
$ ksh
bash: ksh: command not found
$ ksh.exe.lnk
/usr/bin/ksh.exe.lnk: /usr/bin/ksh.exe.lnk: cannot execute binary file
$ cat /usr/bin/ksh.exe.lnk | tr -c "[:print:]" .
L..................F.............................................................P.O.
.:i.....+00.../C:\...................:.1......8D5..cygwin..$........8.-.8......c.y.g.w.i.n.....0.1......8....bin..........8...8......b.i.n.....B.2.....x/n.
.pdksh.exe.*........8...8......p.d.k.s.h...e.x.e.........pdksh.exe..pdksh.exe
$ cygcheck -s
....
Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
....
1829k 2008/04/17 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll
Cygwin DLL version info:
DLL version: 1.5.25
DLL epoch: 19
DLL bad signal mask: 19005
DLL old termios: 5
DLL malloc env: 28
API major: 0
API minor: 156
Shared data: 4
DLL identifier: cygwin1
Mount registry: 2
Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
Program options name: Program Options
Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
Cygdrive default prefix:
Build date: Thu Apr 17 12:11:03 CEST 2008
CVS tag: cr-0x5f1
Shared id: cygwin1S4
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