Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-07 Thread Adam Wolbach
Is there some reason why you aren't just using cygwin's symlink() function? Reverse engineering and mimicking cygwin's symlinks seems to be a pretty fragile way of writing an application which will play nicely with cygwin. What if we change the way symlinks are written at some point? Yeah, I

Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:47:23PM -0400, Adam Wolbach wrote: >>http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format >> >>The first match >> >>http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf >> >>is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the >>shortcu

Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-04 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Adam Wolbach wrote: > > http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format > > > > The first match > > > > http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf > > > > is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the > > shortcut stuff.

Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-04 Thread Adam Wolbach
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format The first match http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the shortcut stuff. Thanks, this gets me more than halfway to what I need to know -

Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 18:39, Adam Wolbach wrote: > Coda's current symlink support in cygwin is nonexistent, but we are > looking to support symlinks in the same manner cygwin appears to -- as > special Windows shortcuts that cygwin can interpret as symlinks. > Allowing cygwin to see our conflicts as broken

Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

2006-08-03 Thread mwoehlke
Adam Wolbach wrote: I'm a new subscriber looking to get some information relevant to the Coda File System development at Carnegie Mellon University, which uses cygwin as a platform to run on Windows 2000/WinXP. We rely heavily on symbolic links for a number of different features, most significa