Samba on Cygwin: symlinks on Windows

[Michael Hoffman]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Bori Attila wrote:
> > Well, I know of at least one worthwile advantage of a Samba port on Windows.
> >
> > Suppose this:
> > - you have Cygwin installed to the root of a Windows drive (D:)
> > - you share "/" with Samba, and mount it in Windows, as, say, S:.
> > - do a "ln -s X Y" and presto: you have a symlink to X on your Windows box!
> > You see it as a Windows .lnk on D:, but it looks like a symlink on S:!
>
> I don't get it.  You already have symlinks in Cygwin so what's the
> actual advantage in this situation?!?

If I understand this, I think the idea is that symlinks on S: would appear
as regular folders to non-Cygwin applications, like Windows Explorer.
Cute.
-- 
Michael Hoffman <grouse@mail.utexas.edu>
The University of Texas at Austin


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