On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Linda A. Walsh <
address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Ah....
>
>
> I have my cygwin "cygdrive path prefix" set to "/"
>>
>> mount -p
>
> Prefix Type Flags
> / user binmode
>
> You should be able to set it once:
>>
>> mount -c /
>
>
> I also have my "cygwin" installed in "C:\"
> not "C:\cygwin".
>
> With those two changes, my cygwin and windows paths
> are identical (except for backslash or forward slash).
>
>
> Forgot about that -- have had it in root for over 10 years...since I
> first installed cygwin.
>
> FWIW -- I **might** call this a minor bug (or feature deficit).
> If you ahve native mode set for the symlinks, then, I would
> argue that it shouldn't insert a "cygwin/c" in the path...
>
> Windows won't let you create a symlink to a non-existent path
> (you can on unix or linux), so when it fails for any reason --
> cygwin falls back to storing the link in a file.
Thanks for all your suggestions.
With Regards,
Amit Kapila.