Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-05-01 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Earnie Boyd! Said that, it IS possible to create a symbolic link to a file in Windows XP, even though you can't access it afterward. I think you mean a junction (reparse point) instead of a symbolic link. I mean exactly symbolic link. It is properly created and attributed, but FS

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-30 Thread Denis Excoffier
The snapshot 20130430 works well. Thank you to JonY, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) and Christopher Faylor who responded. Regards, Denis Excoffier. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-30 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, JonY! The pop-up is produced even before login, presumably during the load of bash --login -i (but i also have /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, so this may also be the reason). I don't understand why a symlink is created during login, but in any case, one can observe that

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-30 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Said that, it IS possible to create a symbolic link to a file in Windows XP, even though you can't access it afterward. I think you mean a junction (reparse point) instead of a symbolic link. Yes, it is possible to have a junction to a file

CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
Hello! I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message (in pop-up and translated from french): bash: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found in KERNEL32.DLL Therefore, i keep the plain 1.7.18 running: % cat /proc/version CYGWIN_NT-5.1 version 1.7.18(0.263/5/3)

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread JonY
On 4/29/2013 14:40, Denis Excoffier wrote: Hello! I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message (in pop-up and translated from french): bash: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found in KERNEL32.DLL Therefore, i keep the plain 1.7.18 running: % cat /proc/version

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread Denis Excoffier
On 2013-04-29 12:09, JonY wrote: On 4/29/2013 14:40, Denis Excoffier wrote: Hello! I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message (in pop-up and translated from french): bash: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found in KERNEL32.DLL Therefore, i keep the plain 1.7.18

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread JonY
On 4/30/2013 03:57, Denis Excoffier wrote: The pop-up is produced even before login, presumably during the load of bash --login -i (but i also have /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, so this may also be the reason). I don't understand why a symlink is created during login, but in any case, one can

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-04-29 14:57, Denis Excoffier wrote: [snip] one can observe that CreateSymbolicLinkW was introduced in path.cc during http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2013-q2/msg00046.html, that occurred immediately before the snapshot. Could you verify that this patched DLL works:

Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 09:57:47PM +0200, Denis Excoffier wrote: On 2013-04-29 12:09, JonY wrote: On 4/29/2013 14:40, Denis Excoffier wrote: Hello! I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message (in pop-up and translated from french): bash: CreateSymbolicLinkW