From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: problem with symbolic links across filesystems 21 Aug 1998 20:44:11 GMT Message-ID: <6rkm6r$nia$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <9808200939.ZM2327.cygnus.gnu-win32@sunsgc.dr.lucent.com> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <9808200939.ZM2327.cygnus.gnu-win32@sunsgc.dr.lucent.com>, ChadyS wrote: >I have recently started working with the b19.1 version of the cygwin32 tools, >and I am very much interested in using the symbolic link capability. I have >found a problem using symbolic links across filesystems. > >Here is the setup: >directory d:/da/db >directory c:/ca > >ln -s d:/da/db c:/ca/cb > >If you are in /ca, you can cd to cb without problems. > >You can't, however, cd to /ca/cb. The problem is realpath shows the following >path for /ca/cb: /ca/d:/da/db Use the cygwin nomenclature for referencing disks devices: ln -s //d/da/db //c/ca/cb -- cgf@cygnus.com "Everything has a boolean value, if you stand http://www.cygnus.com/ far enough away from it." -- Galena Alyson Canada