Re: Howto get Cygwin<->Linux interoperability on NTFS filesystems (symbolic links issue)

2009-08-26 Thread Waldemar Rachwal
Waldemar Rachwal gmail.com> writes: > > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > Never mind. It was easier than I anticipated. I checked in a patch to > > support reading Interix symlinks. However, this only works as expected > > for relative symlinks, since absolute paths in Interix are

Re: Howto get Cygwin<->Linux interoperability on NTFS filesystems (symbolic links issue)

2009-08-26 Thread Waldemar Rachwal
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > On Aug 26 21:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > It would be no big problem to support Interix > > symlink R/O support as well. After all this time without Interix > > symlink support, I don't think it's such a pressing problem, though. > > I'll add it to

Re: Howto get Cygwin<->Linux interoperability on NTFS filesystems (symbolic links issue)

2009-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 21:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > It would be no big problem to support Interix > symlink R/O support as well. After all this time without Interix > symlink support, I don't think it's such a pressing problem, though. > I'll add it to my TODO list for the time after 1.7.1 has been relea

Re: Howto get Cygwin<->Linux interoperability on NTFS filesystems (symbolic links issue)

2009-08-26 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 19:17, Waldemar Rachwal wrote: > Cygwin 1.7 has *read* support of symlinks created by Vista+, but *no write* > for > reasonable reasons (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00936.html). > > That's not bad, as working in dual-boot system, when it comes to switch to > Linux, I woul

Howto get Cygwin<->Linux interoperability on NTFS filesystems (symbolic links issue)

2009-08-26 Thread Waldemar Rachwal
Cygwin 1.7 has *read* support of symlinks created by Vista+, but *no write* for reasonable reasons (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00936.html). That's not bad, as working in dual-boot system, when it comes to switch to Linux, I would convert all cygwin-like symlinks to NTFS's native sy