On Feb 6 11:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 5 12:08, Jonathan Lanier wrote: > > And that > > gives me a totally crazy idea - wouldn't it be nice if there were a > > standardized, open set of extensions to allow Windows applications to > > access native symlinks, attributes, and permissions over remote network > > shares? If there were such a thing, Cygwin could totally use that to > > have seamless Unix-style integration with networks, as could other > > applications. If such a thing doesn't exist, it should. If the CIFS > > protocol already supports it, it should be exposed in the Windows OS. > > Who do I need to vote for to make this happen? :) > > It would sure be nice, but it's quite hard to get to. > > I'll ask on the samba developer list if there's interest to expose > symlinks to Windows apps which know how to handle them.
For those of you interested what's going on, I started a discussion on the samba-technical mailing list. I proposed to use Extended Attributes, because AFAICS, it's the most simple and most transparent way to handle symlinks. http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2008-February/057818.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
