On 10/2/2020 12:47 PM, vinay Hegde wrote:
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
I run Windows 10 and that works for me. Of course below, jcontrol should
be an actual file, while ControlPanel will be a symlink to it. (That
particular name might behave oddly under Windows, because the Control
Panel is a built in thing!)
Not sure what else to say about the different forms. The lnk form, as
I recall, builds a Cygwin-specific thing that Cygwin understands but
Windows tools will not - they'll just think its a small ordinary file
(its has within it, a few "magic" bytes then the name of the target
file). You _want_ a short-cut, right? ControlPanel -> jcontrol _is_
a link.
So I admit I am not fully understanding your post.
Also, on this list, the custom is to bottom-post (or intersperse) replies,
not to top-post.
Regards - EM
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
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