Symbol link trouble ?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:40:40PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:
> 
> >Aaargh! Really? I don't have any 95 for testing purposes so
> >I can't look for this. Did you ever think about upgrading to
> >OSR2, 98, ME, NT, W2K? Ok, ok, seriously, if you can't live
> 
> OS version is 4.00.950 B
>    B means OSR 2, no ?

I think so.

> >with that, you should set your CYGWIN environment variable to
> >contain "nowinsymlinks". In that case, the old symlink method
> >is used again.
> 
>   Adding nowinsymlinks to CYGWIN env variable does
> indeed cure the problem !
> 
>    I also find this bug quite strange:
> the wrong destination to the symbolic link is
> kept even if cygwin DLL is unloaded from memory
> (at least Taskinfo does not see this file as open anymore !)
> Where can this information be kept then ???

Could be a buffering technique of W95. I have just read the Microsoft
KB article Q128932 "How Windows 95 Resolves Shortcut Links" but it
doesn't obtain any additional information.

Corinna

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