On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Linda A. Walsh <g...@tlinx.org> wrote: > Amit Kapila wrote > >> >> Please extract in order as mentioned to ensure that symlink folder >> gets extracted first. >> Please check contents of C:\Data\pg_tblspc, ideally it should contain >> symlink to C:\tbs. > > --- > It appears to work as you are wanting it to (console output below).
Thats great. > But I also note that if they are created in the wrong order (something > that would work on linux). -- then I get the behavior you mention: > > instead of a symlink, I get a file containing text: > > C:\data\pg_tblspc>hexdump -C 16386 > 00000000 21 3c 73 79 6d 6c 69 6e 6b 3e ff fe 63 00 3a 00 |!<symlink>..c.:.| > 00000010 5c 00 74 00 62 00 73 00 00 00 |\.t.b.s...| > 0000001a I am always getting file having contents as above. > > This might have to do with the version of cygwin you have. > > You might make sure your cygwin is up to date -- as I vaguely remember > somewhat older versions of 'cygwin' didn't create actual windows > symlinks and hardlinks but created dummy files with the information > in them (like you are seeing). But that changed... maybe 2-4 years ago? > > If you are running on a 64-bit windows, there is also a 64-bit > cygwin that runs in native mode that gives some advantages over > 32-bit cygwin on a 64-bit machine (like 32-bit processes can't > see the real C:\windows\system32, but are redirected to C:\windows\syswow64 > syswow64 = windows[32] on windows64) > > you can tell which version you are running by running uname -a: > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Athenae 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 x86_64 Cygwin > > 32-bit cygwin would say: > CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Athenae 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) 2014-02-09 21:06 i686 Cygwin > I am working Windows 64-bit and uname -a gives below info on my m/c. CYGWIN_NT-6.2 WIN-J9UR5I3UTSM 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 x86_64 Cygwin I have downloaded cygwin for windows64-bit from below link: https://www.cygwin.com/install.html Do I need to update my cygwin installation, any recommendation for same? With Regards, Amit Kapila.
