On Apr 6 15:54, Tim McDaniel wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Peter Wohlers wrote: > >>Since upgrading to 1.7, I keep seeing weird problems with deletion > >>of my homedir symlink. > >> > >>Before running setup: > >>pwohl...@h1n1 ~ > >>$ ll / > >>[...] > >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Domain Users 18 2010-04-04 14:31 home -> > >>/cygdrive/d/Users/ > >>[...] > >>After running setup: > >>[...] > >>Setup seems to have deleted the softlink for /home > > > >Well... yes. That's probably a bit unfortunate. The current mechanism > >always creates a couple of directories if they don't already exist: > > > ... > > /home > ... > >If the directory couldn't be created because a non-directory file > >uses the same name, it deletes that file and tries to create the > >directory again. It's not perfect, but at least we know that the > >directories exist, afterwards. We could add a mode which drops the > >aggressive creation strategy, but I only see that *could* make sense > >for home. > > Um, so I suppose it's doing a test for symlinks specifically. Why not
There's no such test. Setup is a native Win32 application, not a Cygwin application. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
