On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote:
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> Again, the properties are read BY SYSTEM at the moment the link is created.
> In other words, Windows is unable to create a link to nonexistent
> (unreachable) target (not directly, at least).
This is false. Links can be created arbitrarily
Operations like cp and rsync etc. should still work. The type of
symbolic link to be created can be read from the file attributes of
the one being copied.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:46 AM Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin
wrote:
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> On 1/4/2021 10:27 AM, Matt D. via Cygwin (cygwin@cygwin.com)
bolic links. It
does not have a problem creating links to any target with the default
Cygwin (non-Windows) symbolic links.
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:30 AM Eliot Moss wrote:
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> On 1/4/2021 5:36 AM, Matt D. via Cygwin wrote:
> > Did you try any of my test cases? This can't and doesn't work
r_a/a' -> 'folder_b/a'
cp: cannot create symbolic link 'folder_b/a': No such file or directory
$ cp -Pv folder_a/a folder_b/
'folder_a/a' -> 'folder_b/a'
cp: cannot create symbolic link 'folder_b/a': No such file or directory
On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:00 AM Brian Inglis
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> On 2021-01-0
I have a folder with a lot of native Windows symbolic links. I want to
copy this folder.
I cannot rsync or cp this folder due to Cygwin being unable to create
symbolic links without also wanting to verify the link target. This
can be demonstrated:
$ ln -s a b
ln: failed to create symbolic link
I have Cygwin's /bin directory configured to be available on my login
environment PATH by default. This behavior is inherited when I run a
bash login shell:
$ where sort
C:\cygwin\bin\sort.exe
C:\Windows\System32\sort.exe
But if I run the following script from a Windows command prompt:
C:\>
Please ignore this. There was an error in my test case.
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Simple Bash script:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> cut
Save as "testme.sh" in C:\ or elsewhere.
Open a Windows command prompt and type:
> cmd /c bash -c /c/testme.sh
I get the following error:
> -gThe system cannot find the file specified.
This only seems to trigger when bash is running as a child
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