Re: Cygwin 1.7: Accessing (local) junctions via SMB

2010-06-02 Thread Mario Küchler
Corinna Vinschen wrote: (...) In contrast, the behaviour of Cygwin 1.7, which is to read the actual reparse point content and treat it as symlinks, does not make sense for remote reparse points, apparently. Only the remote system knows how to treat them correctly. So I just applied a patch

Cygwin 1.7: Accessing (local) junctions via SMB

2010-05-18 Thread Mario Küchler
Hi, there seems to be a change from 1.5 to 1.7 when processing junctions (reparse points). This was already discussed here but I want to point to an issue when accessing them via SMB. Both hosts have a local junction from d:\temp to c:\temp. SMB connection goes from host1 to host2 (identical