1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-22 Thread Jonathan Lanier
reason that I can determine. Does anyone know why the behavior of KERNEL32 API functions would behave differently for Cygwin apps? Is there any kind of behind-the-scenes library hooking going on that I'm unaware of? Can anyone repeat this behavior? I'm at a loss to provide any additi

1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-22 Thread Jonathan Lanier
reason that I can determine. Does anyone know why the behavior of KERNEL32 API functions would behave differently for Cygwin apps? Is there any kind of behind-the-scenes library hooking going on that I'm unaware of? Can anyone repeat this behavior? I'm at a loss to provide any additi

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-22 Thread Jonathan Lanier
Sorry for the duplicate post; my mail filter indicated that it had blocked my outgoing message due to the attachment. Apparently, it didn't. :) - Jonathan Lanier -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Lanier
esired Posix attribute? I'm happy to run any kind of test or diagnostic on my machine to help narrow down the problem; unfortunately, since I am in a production environment, I'm very limited in what I can do with the CIFS server. - Jonathan Lanier -- Unsubscribe info: http://

RE: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Lanier
away if I can help it. I was kind of hoping someone here might have some idea what was going on with the internals of Cygwin/WinXP that might provide a more direct approach at solving the problem. But if it comes to that, then yes, I could try it. - Jonathan Lanier -Original Message- F

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Lanier
Um, I did both on my first post yesterday. :) - Jonathan Lanier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:25 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share

RE: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2006-10-25 Thread Jonathan Lanier
vert to the older version of Cygwin that works and progress forward through the cygwin1.dll history until I can determine when it breaks. I probably will not be able to get to that until the weekend. If anyone could direct me to an ftp or http archive of the older Cygwin distributions

CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-01 Thread Jonathan Lanier
mentation so maybe they haven't encountered this yet? If anyone who knows more about this than I do can chime in, it would be much appreciated. Also, as I stated before, I'm more than happy to help test to fix the problem (though I'm pretty sure the fix is simply to remove tha

RE: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan Lanier
> On Feb 1 18:06, Jonathan Lanier wrote: >> Newer versions of Cygwin appear to be incompatible with Windows >> network shares on CIFS servers. This incompatibility arises due to >> the fact that the Windows OS seems to return unexpected values for >> file/direct

RE: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan Lanier
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:05:18AM -0800, Jonathan Lanier wrote: >> Any comments from NetApp? Doesn't, like, Christopher Faylor work for >> them, or something? :) I've been told that they troll here... > > I work for them but I'm neither a troll nor am I

RE: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan Lanier
must be doing something very weird under the hood... We've opened a ticket with NetApp and I think they're going to look into this for a more permanent fix (fingers crossed). - Jonathan Lanier -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-04 Thread Jonathan Lanier
in favor of avoiding work-arounds for weird behavior (AWAFWB?) whenever possible. One long look at the filesystem code in Cygwin was enough to frighten me out of any delusions of adequacy involving changes to Cygwin file I/O. I have a completely new level of respect for Cygwin at this po

RE: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

2008-02-05 Thread Jonathan Lanier
>> Yep, and it doesn't help. It's solely down to the secureshare >> stuff not presenting through the standard NT api; it's only visible >> by using the shell extension dll. >> >> (... which makes me wonder, could we possibly leverage that to do >> some useful work for us in these situations.