On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Linda A. Walsh <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Amit Kapila wrote
>
>>
>> Please extract in order as mentioned to ensure that symlink folder
>> gets extracted first.
>> Please check contents of C:\Data\pg_tblspc, ideally it should contain
>> symlink to C:\tbs.
>
> ---
> It appears to work as you are wanting it to (console output below).
Thats great.
> But I also note that if they are created in the wrong order (something
> that would work on linux). -- then I get the behavior you mention:
>
> instead of a symlink, I get a file containing text:
>
> C:\data\pg_tblspc>hexdump -C 16386
> 00000000 21 3c 73 79 6d 6c 69 6e 6b 3e ff fe 63 00 3a 00 |!<symlink>..c.:.|
> 00000010 5c 00 74 00 62 00 73 00 00 00 |\.t.b.s...|
> 0000001a
I am always getting file having contents as above.
>
> This might have to do with the version of cygwin you have.
>
> You might make sure your cygwin is up to date -- as I vaguely remember
> somewhat older versions of 'cygwin' didn't create actual windows
> symlinks and hardlinks but created dummy files with the information
> in them (like you are seeing). But that changed... maybe 2-4 years ago?
>
> If you are running on a 64-bit windows, there is also a 64-bit
> cygwin that runs in native mode that gives some advantages over
> 32-bit cygwin on a 64-bit machine (like 32-bit processes can't
> see the real C:\windows\system32, but are redirected to C:\windows\syswow64
> syswow64 = windows[32] on windows64)
>
> you can tell which version you are running by running uname -a:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Athenae 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 x86_64 Cygwin
>
> 32-bit cygwin would say:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Athenae 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) 2014-02-09 21:06 i686 Cygwin
>
I am working Windows 64-bit and uname -a gives below info
on my m/c.
CYGWIN_NT-6.2 WIN-J9UR5I3UTSM 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 x86_64 Cygwin
I have downloaded cygwin for windows64-bit from below link:
Do I need to update my cygwin installation, any recommendation
for same?
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.