[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS] AW: Re: [OpenAFS] Windows client Cygwin and symlinks on afs volume

[Jeffrey Altman]

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On 4/13/2011 5:40 AM, Axel M=C3=BCller wrote:
> The difference to a "normal" directory is the FileAttribute returned by=
 QueryBasicInformationFile.
> For the symlink it is "N" and for a "normal" directory it is "D". I gue=
ss that's why the ls fails.

If the symlink is being listed as a file when it is a directory, it is
because the target path of the symlink cannot be evaluated in the
current context.  Since the target of the link cannot be accessed, the
AFS cache manager has no knowledge of whether it is a directory or a
file and must guess.

Jeffrey Altman


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