Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:48 +0200 From: Pavel Tsekov Reply-To: Pavel Tsekov Organization: Syntrex, Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1651374155.20020627112348@syntrex.com> To: "Peter A. Castro" CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fun with symlinks? In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Peter, Thursday, June 27, 2002, 7:17:25 AM, you wrote: [snip] PAC> Fine, so far. Now, suppose you got a notice that a new Bash was uploaded PAC> to the cygwin release area. So, you fire up 'setup' and tell it to PAC> upgrade Bash. Now, start Bash. Notice your changes don't show up anymore. PAC> Now, do an 'ls -al /etc/pro*' PAC> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 386 May 30 19:08 /etc/profile PAC> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 386 May 30 19:08 /etc/profile This is not real :) If you go to the /etc directory from a windows command prompt and type 'dir' you will see: profile profile.lnk The second one is your link and it is compatible with the windows type shortcuts. I know there is a way, in terms of a flag in the CYGWIN variable, to control the type of symlinks which cygwin creates, but I don't remember the details :( You can check the user's guide though. I agree that the setup.exe behaviour in this case maybe needs an improvement. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/