Hi Eliot Moss, Thank you very much for the quick response & the information.It really helped. I just set 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks:lnk' & I am now able to open sym-link file. Both 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks:lnk' & 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks' are working for me. But it creates a shortcut(not the regular file). Hope it won't impact my existing setup.
But both 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native' (which is default I believe) & 'CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict' are not working for me. Just to understand, In what OS environment/File System 'native' will work? Regards Vinay Hegde On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:13 PM Eliot Moss <m...@cs.umass.edu> wrote: > > On 10/2/2020 11:26 AM, vinay Hegde via Cygwin wrote: > > Hi Cygwin Team, > > In Cygwin 3.6, I am facing an issue while using tar.exe for extracting > > .tar.z file. > > > > Issue summary: > > When I use 'tar.exe' to extract the .tar.z file, it extracts all files > > including symlinks. But symlink file size will be 0KB & it throws > > error 'The file cannot be accessed by the system', if I try to open in > > any Windows editor like notepad or notepad++ > > > > Below are the details: > > - OS: Windows 2019 > > - Cygwin version installed: 3.6 (tar version: 1.29) > > - Command used to extract the tar file is: tar -zxvf jre64.tar.Z > > - 'ls -l' on the extracted directory shows: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 etbuild Domain Users 8 Jul 10 2017 ControlPanel -> > > jcontrol > > -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 etbuild Domain Users 7734 Mar 15 2017 java > > -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 etbuild Domain Users 128791 Mar 15 2017 javaws > > -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 etbuild Domain Users 6264 Mar 15 2017 jcontrol > > > > - As you can see 'ControlPanel' is a symlink file with 0KB > > (8Bytes) size. This file, I cannot open in any Windows editor. It > > throws error like ''The file cannot be accessed by the system' > > > > - However, I can open this file in vi editor or I can 'cat' this. > > > > - Earlier, I was using Cygwin version 1.7 (tar version: 1.27) & in > > that, this issue was not there. Symlink file size was 1KB & I could > > open it with any Windows editor. > > > > Please suggest what needs to be done to fix this issue. > > Hi, Vinay - Cygwin can use, and create, a variety of forms of links. Some of > these are understood > by Windows tools, some not. I suggest you read in the Cygwin documentation > about symlinks and > decide what kind are best for you. Then you'll need to set that up, delete > the existing link, and > re-create it. I personally run with CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native, but as we say > in Internet land, YMMV. > > Regards - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple