On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jan 10 21:01, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

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No.  If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would

It isn't.  NFS only handles POSIX permissions.  However, if you're using
the Microsoft NFS client, you can convert the Cygwin syste-type symlinks
to "real" symlinks on the target filesystem.  These are supported as well
by Cygwin.

Ah cool.  You know, I think I remember you mentioning that before. :-)

However, please note that Microsoft's NFS client does not support UTF-8
as target charset.

be to convert the
symbolic links to their "winsymlinks" format.  If course, doing that
means you loose
UTF character support.  See
<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>
for more on this option.

Is my description under using-cygwinenv.html unclear?  I only compared
the old and the new format.  The new format using UTF-16 is used by both
styles of symlinks, the SYSTEM and the .lnk style.

OK, I didn't get that from my reading of the description.  I'd recommend
adding that path names of either style now use UTF-16, just to be clear.
I doubt this is a critical issue of course but it's worthwhile to make this
distinction to avoid confusion.

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