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Walter L. wrote:
> > > > I believe the target of the symlink should be "protocol" (i.e.
How would that affect 'services'?Sorry, you lost me. 'services' has 8 characters in the file name and so is its symlink target; That shouldn't be an issue. Of the 4 symlinks under /etc/ (i.e. networks, hosts, services, and protocols), only 'protocols' exceeds the 8 character limit and hence the actual target file in Windows/System32/drivers/etc/ is 'protocol'. NOTE: I'm talking about the *target* file not the symlinks themselves, which are fine.
--- Oops.. my bad -- don't know why I substituted services. However, weren't those files there for unix-subsystem support? Not sure:
From this:
https://books.google.com/books?id=6hlNFc7drzEC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=reason+for+drivers/etc/protocol+on+windows&source=bl&hl=en&sa=X&q=reason%20for%20drivers%2Fetc%2Fprotocol%20on%20windows&f=false#v=snippet&q=reason%20for%20drivers%2Fetc%2Fprotocol%20on%20windows&f=false (page 39) -- it says those files were specific to NT systems beginning with NT4.0, which used NTFS. I don't know if NT supported having the windows/system32 directory on FAT][32]... NT4 would have been the version before Windows 2000 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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