Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/12/2010 04:52 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks! What way do you guys suggest to convert all existing symlinks to the .lnk style? Complete reinstall with setup.exe? Hope there is a second option... ;-) There are quite some hits for: find / -exec grep '!' {} \; Right. And 'find' wou

RE: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread sbremal
: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:40:52 + > Subject: Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute) > From: andy.ko...@gmail.com > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > 2010/1/12 sbremal >> I am afraid the winsymlinks option is an installation time setting, is it? : > &g

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/12 sbremal > I am afraid the winsymlinks option is an installation time setting, is it? : No, but it only affects newly created symlinks. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/

RE: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread sbremal
st-only...@cygwin.com > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system > attribute) > > On 01/12/2010 11:44 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Jan 11 14:14, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Co

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/12/2010 11:44 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 11 14:14, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear? I only compared the old and the new format. The new format using UTF-16 is used by both styles of s

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 11 14:14, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear? I only compared > >the old and the new format. The new format using UTF-16 is used by both > >styles of symlinks, the SYSTEM and the .lnk style. >

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: No. If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would It isn't. NFS only handles POSIX permissions. However, if you're using the Microsoft NFS client, you can convert the Cygwin syste

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as > >long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: > > > >$ awk > >bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied >

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: $ awk bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied One option is to invoke the executable pointed to instead. Another i

Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-10 Thread sbremal
Hello, I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: $ awk bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied The NFS drive does not seem to support the DOS system attribute which makes basic UNIX utilities unavailable. Is there an