On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as > >long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: > > > >$ awk > >bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied > > One option is to invoke the executable pointed to instead. Another is to > replace the symbolic link with a hard link. A third is to use SAMBA instead. > > >The NFS drive does not seem to support the DOS system attribute which > >makes basic UNIX utilities unavailable. > > > >Is there any way to tell Cygwin to ignore the system attribute? > > No. If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would
It isn't. NFS only handles POSIX permissions. However, if you're using the Microsoft NFS client, you can convert the Cygwin syste-type symlinks to "real" symlinks on the target filesystem. These are supported as well by Cygwin. However, please note that Microsoft's NFS client does not support UTF-8 as target charset. > be to convert the > symbolic links to their "winsymlinks" format. If course, doing that > means you loose > UTF character support. See > <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html> > for more on this option. Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear? I only compared the old and the new format. The new format using UTF-16 is used by both styles of symlinks, the SYSTEM and the .lnk style. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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