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

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > > I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. > > again. Reformatted. > > The entry just defines TOFU: > Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original Germa

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

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in . Care to offer a patch? The "submitting a patch" guidelines seem to refer to program patches... since this is

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

On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in . Care to offer a patch The "submitting a patch" guidelines seem to refer to program patches... since this is only an HTML update, here i

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

Jonathan Lanier wrote: If anyone could direct me to an ftp or http archive of the older Cygwin distributions, it would be much appreciated. Thanks! See: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22cygwin+time+machine%22&btnG=Search Particularly: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwi

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

(PCYMTNQREAIYR, TOFU, grokked; apologies - haven't been on this list for about 9 years...) >> One completely wild guess would be that there is some attribute >> associated with the process that might expose the native symlinks, >> possibly for improved compatibility with SFU/Posix and CIFS; > > C

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

DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, Fullquote Unten").

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

On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, Fullquote Unten"). A combination of top posti

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

On Oct 24 11:08, Jonathan Lanier wrote: > One completely wild guess would be that there is some attribute > associated with the process that might expose the native symlinks, > possibly for improved compatibility with SFU/Posix and CIFS; Cygwin processes are ordinary Win32 processes, just linked a

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

nd, more importantly, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR> again. Let's not make life any easier for spammers, eh? Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:58 PM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin You too. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>. Reforma

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

Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:58 PM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin You too. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>. Reformatted. Jonathan Lanier wrote: -Orig

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

n com Yikes! Ditto - <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>. Reformatted. Champ Mendis wrote: - Original Message - From: &

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

/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:47 AM > Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin > > >> Jonathan Lanier wrote: >>> Well, I thought of that - first rule of debugging, calculatus >>> eliminatus. I tried it

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

Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:47 AM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin Jonathan Lanier wrote: Well, I thought of that - first rule of debugging, calculatus eliminatus. I tried it; but, attempts to use the older DLLs with newer apps (or vice-versa) resul

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

run in DOS mode but it failed. I will also try the same thing as Jonathan says. Thanks, Champ - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:47 AM Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network sh

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

Jonathan Lanier wrote: Well, I thought of that - first rule of debugging, calculatus eliminatus. I tried it; but, attempts to use the older DLLs with newer apps (or vice-versa) result in corrupted shared memory, and force me to reboot my WinXP box. I've been under the impression that cygwin1.dl

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

rom: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Woehlke Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:53 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin Jonathan Lanier wrote: > Also, because (I know the FAQ > says not to say this, but I t

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

Jonathan Lanier wrote: Also, because (I know the FAQ says not to say this, but I think it's useful information in this case) we have a much older version of Cygwin (cygcheck reports v1.5.14) that works flawlessly with CIFS and does not suffer the same problems. So, at the very least, it appears

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

> I can't help to think this is a bug in the CIFS server, rather than a bug in Cygwin. That is a tempting conclusion to reach; unfortunately I don't think it's the right one, nor do I think this bug has to blamed on just one or the other. Notice that I ran these tests 3 times, each compiled in a

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

On Oct 22 22:56, Jonathan Lanier wrote: > Brief summary, before I get into details: Cygwin 1.5.21-1 on WinXP SP2 > was working perfectly, until a new CIFS server was installed on our LAN. > [...] > The common factor to > all failures: they are all symbolic links on the CIFS server. Typical > fa

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

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.html Documentati