I looked at two of the other configurations, the CYGWIN environment variable is not set at all. So they are all running default configs.
Thanks again, Akshay > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:07 PM > To: Akshay Dua > Subject: Re: Symbolic links with cvs > > Akshay Dua wrote: > > Thanks so much for your reply. > > > > Is there a way to tell Cygwin to stop converting (or treating) .lnk > > files as symlinks? The thing is my colleagues with the same version of > > Cygwin do not have this problem. In their case Cygwin treats the .lnk > > file as a plain file rather than a symbolic link and hence does not > > follow it. I wonder why this behavior exists on my machine. > > > > The only thing I can think of, is that I set and then unset > > CYGWIN=ntsec. I don't know if that changed something. Before that I had > > whatever is enabled by default and in fact was not observing the above > > behavior even when I checked out .lnk files. > > > > The issue really is that since .lnk files are treated as symbolic links, > > they appear as locally modified to CVS because in one case the links are > > followed (locally) and in the other case they aren't (in the > > repository). > > > > Any suggestions on how I can get the old behavior back? > > > You may want to check if your colleagues have "nowinsymlinks" set in their > CYGWIN environment variable > <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>. > > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
