just to make sure we debug the same entity can you show how the vista symlink was created (win32 call or ms shell or ??) thanks
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:03:15 -0700 Jon Pile wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently using UWin to run the build system for a large Unix > suite that I am porting to Windows. Some of the software is using the > Windows symbolic-link support on NTFS systems that first shipped with > Windows Vista. I mention this as opposed to the meaning of "ln -s" in > UWin, which creates a shortcut. > Today I finally realized what was causing one of my weird problems: > the UWin rm, when it looks at one of these symlinks, deletes the > _target_ of the link rather than the link itself. This > is...problematic, to say the least. > Hopefully this illustrates what I mean: > $ which rm > /usr/bin/rm > $ cat > src/target > Hi there > $ ls -l src/target symlink > -rw-r--r-- 1 jpile Domain+Users 9 Aug 23 15:00 src/target > lrwx------ 1 Administrators Domain+Users 7 Aug 23 15:00 > symlink -> /K/tmp/src/target > $ cat symlink > Hi there > $ rm symlink > $ ls -l src/target symlink > ls: src/target: not found > lrwx------ 1 Administrators Domain+Users 7 Aug 23 14:38 > symlink -> /K/tmp/symlink > -jP > _______________________________________________ > uwin-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users _______________________________________________ uwin-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users
