X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45876A7B.90606@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:28:43 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: symlink problem References: <742bfe100612181248t59ca849fq710e40ba6a572721 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <45870539 DOT 4030504 AT cygwin DOT com> <742bfe100612181743y5d606f9cg4a96bcc1ea657922 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> In-Reply-To: <742bfe100612181743y5d606f9cg4a96bcc1ea657922@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Koichi Yamaguchi wrote: > Hi Larry, > > Thank you. It worked. > Now I figured out that if a folder, in which cygwin will be installed, > doesn't include SYSTEM user permission, installation program > cannot set appropriate attribute to symbolic links automatically. That's a "feature" of Windows which can be disabled. If you bring up the properties tabs for the parent directory and disable inheritance of permissions on the permissions tab, you won't see this behavior. An alternative is just what you did. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/