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Re: Howto get Cygwin<->Linux interoperability on NTFS filesystems (symbolic links issue)


Waldemar Rachwal <waldemar.rachwal <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> > Never mind.  It was easier than I anticipated.  I checked in a patch to
> > support reading Interix symlinks.  However, this only works as expected
> > for relative symlinks, since absolute paths in Interix are different
> > from absolute paths in Cygwin due to the different layout of the
> > filesystem tree.
> > 
> > Corinna
> > 
> 
> Are there any obstacles to get 3. option (interix) R/W?
> 
> 

Sorry, your response indicated that there are exceptions Interix would not
handle.
Not giving up, I'd propose a global switch for Interix, and if
particular path cannot be represented - fallback to... Cygwin's representation.

If ugly for the universe, forget, I'll have to cope with egh... a "converter"
for majority of cases and manual editing for minority.

Waldemar


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