Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-30 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, b

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 fil

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

2013-04-29 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 Unsu

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:

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: ftp://ftp.cygwinports

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, > on

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

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/v

CreateSymbolicLinkW needed

2013-04-28 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) (cori...@calime