X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:04:08 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Finding junction points in cygwin Message-ID: <20091110150408.GD4616@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20091109171803 DOT GK26344 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <26270509 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <20091109180913 DOT GA14129 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <26272067 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <26272231 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <26273372 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <31b7d2790911091321y2f1b860fh79cd994f87d4f44c AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <26274197 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> <20091110042621 DOT GC6051 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <26279378 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <26279378.post@talk.nabble.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:30:45PM -0800, aputerguy wrote: > >Christopher Faylor writes >> It's not clear whom you are expecting to prepare this comprehensive >> list. For Cygwin we clearly want you to use our symlinks. It's a >> bonus that Corinna has implemented any functionality for anything >> else at all. > >No real expectations and not a complaint about cygwin. Just more of a >frustration of trying to merge the *nix and Windows worlds. > >My problem is not within cygwin itself -- it's with trying to use cygwin to >also do Windoze-related tasks. In particular, I am trying to extend a >*nix-focused rsync-based program to do a better job of backing up Windoze >systems by capturing as much of the ntfs structure as possible. So, I am >trying to understand ACLs, reparse points, the MFT, etc. > >Cygwin is of course awesome... Well, thanks, but I think you're missing a big part of Cygwin if you think that you need someone else to compile a table for you. If this really is something useful then you could always go down in history by doing the research (reading source code?) and contributing the table yourself. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple