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Create a link to a relative path with nix flakes
In my nixos config (with flakes and home-manager as a nixos module) I have:
modules/home-manager/emacs-config (my emacs config directory as a git submodule)
modules/home-manager/modules/emacs.nix (a ...
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Automatically Converting Windows Shortcuts to Linux Links using Bash
after two years of dual-booting I'm finally giving Microsoft the boot, pun intended. But I've a large personal and work archive that has over 1100 Windows Shortcuts(.lnk) of both files and folders and ...
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Semantics of POSIX path traversal
It's reasonably well known that POSIX has fairly mad path traversal semantics, mostly due to the existence of symlinks. For example to open("foo/../bar") the kernel can't just open("bar&...
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Read file and get the real path at the same time
In C on linux, given a file path, I'd like to read the file contents, and also I'd like to know the real path with any symlinks resolved. I can do those things separately (e.g. open() + read() for the ...
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Modifying timestamps on Windows reparse points
I need to copy timestamps (modified time) between NTFS reparse points of type junction, directory symlink and file symlink.
I can get the timestamp of a reparse point with os.lstat(). But to apply ...
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storage:link not creating symlink in public folder
I'm working on a Laravel 12 project using XAMPP on Windows 10.
I tried to use the following command to create the symbolic link for serving uploaded files:
php artisan storage:link
But the public/...
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How to force MATLAB/Simulink to use symbolic link
In Windows, is there a way to force MATLAB to use symbolic link for the workspace directory? I tried both symbolic link as well as directory junction, but MATLAB/Simulink always resolves the link ...
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Node.js fs.symlinkSync EPERM on Windows 10 without admin privileges
I’m running Node.js v14.17.0 on Windows 10 (Build 19042) as a normal user. I’ve enabled Developer Mode so that creating symlinks shouldn’t require elevation, but whenever I try:
const fs = require('fs'...
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VS Code Python: Script runs with "Run" but fails with "Debug" when using symlinked python.exe
Background:
I'm facing an issue in VS Code where my Python script runs fine using the "Run" button but fails silently when using "Debug".
Environment:
Windows 10
Python 3.10
VS ...
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How does ping know that it was called by ping6 symbolic link? [closed]
When I'm executing ping4 linux.com in a bash terminal on Linux Mint 22.1 Kernel 6.8.0.55 the URL is resolved to a IPv4 address, when executing ping6 linux.com the URL is resolved to a IPv6 adress as ...
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How to create a hard link in Windows 11 that points to a folder in WSL2-Ubuntu?
I have a folder in WSL2-Ubuntu whose path is \\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\akira\project. I want to sync this folder with Dropbox. The Dropbox folder on Windows 11 is C:\Users\Akira\Dropbox. I tried
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Atomically "moving" a directory in Linux, when it is not a symlink [closed]
Let's say I have two directories in Linux, /A and /B, a program uses /A, and I want now point /A to /B so that the program now sees /B when reading /A.
This is one way I could do that:
rm -rf /A
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CreateSymbolicLinkW failed: Bazel symlinks on Windows requires administrator privileges
While running yarn run devtools:test inside my Angular development fork on Windows 11 I got the following error output:
Process exited with status 1: Process exited with status 1
build-runfiles ...
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Is it okay to use a symlink for my local .git folder?
I like to keep a copy of my /etc folder in a git repository. That way, if something changes and breaks but I don't notice it right away, I'm likely to have a diff that helps me recover pretty quickly.
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git (windows): how to get information if a file in repo (in git objects?) is a symlink or not
I have several symbolic links (file and directory links) in my repository.
When I clone the repository it depends if the destination file system is able to handle symbolic links or not.
When it's not ...
