[OpenAFS] Windows client Cygwin and symlinks on afs volume

[Jeffrey Altman]

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On 4/12/2011 7:11 AM, Axel M wrote:
>=20
> We use (Linux) symlinks on our afs volume for some directories. The sym=
links
> are created by the Linux AFS client.
> On Windows, Explorer does show this symlinks correctly as directories a=
nd it
> is possible to dive into these directories (I am aware of the delete
> problem, that's why the directories are only writable for a special use=
rs).
> However, Cygwin's bash has problems with these symlinked directories.
> When I do ls on such a symlink (AFS is mapped to drive Z)
> ls /cygdrive/z/WorkSpaces/linked_dir
> I get the error message "linked_dir is not a valid directory"

The AFS cache manager does not expose the existence of symlinks to
Windows.  Whatever failure your bash instance is experiencing, it has
nothing to do with symlinks.

/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/a/jaltman/sysinternals is a symlink to
"SysInternals".

bash-3.2#  pwd
//afs/athena.mit.edu/user/j/a/jaltman

bash-3.2# ls -lt
total 130
drwxr-xr-x 18 jaltman root  2048 2010-12-06 18:49 OldFiles
drwxr-xr-x  1 jaltman root 98304 2010-10-25 17:40 Private
drwxr-xr-x 21 jaltman root  6144 2010-10-02 18:11 Public
drwxr-xr-x  2 jaltman root  6144 2010-09-09 14:06 SysInternals
drwxr-xr-x  2 jaltman root  6144 2010-09-09 14:06 sysinternals

bash-3.2# ls sysinternals
ADExplorer.exe  Desktops.exe   LogonSessions.exe    SIEExtPub.zip
       accvio.EXE          ico00001.ico   procexp64.exe     regjump.exe
        strings.exe
ADInsight.chm   Disk2vhd.chm   Newsid.exe.manifest  Sid.mdp
       adplus_scripts.zip  ico207.ico     procmon.101.exe   resource.h
        sync.exe

What I suggest you do is use the SysInternals Process Monitor tool to
monitor the requests from bash.exe and see what exactly is failing.



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