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Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:01:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)
- References: <SNT127-W9F5FFEBD8318614C4F776A96E0@phx.gbl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbremal@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as
long as no symbolic link executables are invoked:
$ awk
bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied
One option is to invoke the executable pointed to instead. Another is to
replace the symbolic link with a hard link. A third is to use SAMBA instead.
The NFS drive does not seem to support the DOS system attribute which
makes basic UNIX utilities unavailable.
Is there any way to tell Cygwin to ignore the system attribute?
No. If the R/O attribute is supported, then a fourth option would 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.
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