On Apr 6 21:52, James Abley wrote: > On 02/04/2008, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just looked into this stuff again. Actually I had implemented reading > > reparse points so that directory junctions are recognized as symlinks. > > But it didn't work for these special junctions on Vista for two reasons. > > > > First, it turned out that these junctions have an ACL which explicitely > > denies everyone FILE_READ_DATA access. > > > > Second, the SYSTEM attribute was evaluated before the REPARSE attribute, > > so these special reparse points were erroneously opened as Cygwin old- > > style symlinks instead of reading the reparse data from them. > > > > I applied a patch which you'll find in the next snaphshot, which fixes > > both problems. > > > > > > Corinna > > Not sure you need this any more, but I'm including the requested > strace output. Thanks for the quick turnaround, I'll test the later > snapshots and see how I get on.
Thanks for the strace. It supported my theory and the aforementioned patch should fix the problem. Please give the next developer snapshot a try. 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/
