On Oct 13 21:53, Yakov Lerner wrote: > On 10/13/06, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I got a report on the Cygwin mailing list that the following message > >appears when trying to open /etc/hosts in vim: > > > > E303: Unable to open swap file for "/etc/hosts", recovery impossible > > > >What happens is this: > > > >/etc/hosts is by default a symbolic link which points to the hosts file > >in the Windows system directory. The symbolic link is created as a link > >to the DOS path, for instance: > > > > $ ls -l /etc/hosts > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 corinna None 37 Oct 13 18:32 /etc/hosts -> > > c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts > > I bet you can solve the problem by relinking /etc/hosts to > /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts. > > This is how it *should* be linked.
Sure, but that's not the problem. If it's not /etc/hosts it's another symlink created by a user. DOS paths do work, usually. > It surprises me very much that your cygwin recognizes backslashes in > pathnames. I was under impression that cygwin does not recognize > backslashes in pathnames .. forward slashes as path separators. > I mean, I tried 'ls c:\windows' in cygwin and it does not work ...... Well, this isn't a Cygwin mailing list and what you're writing is not a Cygwin problem. Backslashes still have special meaning in POSIX shells. Try ls c:\\windows or ls 'c:\windows' Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat
