Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/08 06:40, Michael Soegtrop wrote: What I don't understand is why it does work sometimes and sometimes not. I always use the same scripts to install and remove cygwin on the same machines and then do pretty much the same thing with this cygwin (build our open source software)

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-08 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 11/8/2020 9:40 AM, Michael Soegtrop wrote: Why shouldn't I be able to remove symlinks with rm -rf from within a cygwin? As far as I understand the standard behavior of "rm" is to remove the symlink and not its target. What I do when I remove a cygwin installation in our CI is an "rm -rf"

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-08 Thread Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin
Hi Ken, L A Walsh, > But you can change this if you don't like it, as I said in my reply to your earlier message about this: I don't know if I like it yet - I am still in the process of understanding what is going on. I maintain the Windows build of a large open source project and we also

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/05 13:41, Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin wrote: I wonder if the path "/mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/wingding.ttf" is something which should be written into a NTFS reparse point by cygwin setup. Probably not - it looks like a cygwin path and it is understandable that this confuses NTFS.

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-05 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 11/5/2020 4:41 PM, Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin wrote: Dear Cyhwin Users and Team, since a while I have issues removing cygwin installations, especially the symlinks to true type fonts in /usr/share/fonts/microsoft. Looking at these links with Windows tools I get:

Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-05 Thread Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin
Dear Cyhwin Users and Team, since a while I have issues removing cygwin installations, especially the symlinks to true type fonts in /usr/share/fonts/microsoft. Looking at these links with Windows tools I get: C:\bin\cygwin\usr\share\fonts\microsoft>fsutil reparsepoint query wingding.ttf