Questions tagged [interix]

Symlinks created in Linux on NTFS drives (ln -s) appear in Windows as short files with contents IntxLNK + 0x01 + (UTF-16 encoded target path) -- probably Interix. I want to write a script to convert them, when booting in Windows, to proper NTFS…

What are the advantages or disadvantages of using GNU/Linux utilities on Windows 7 via Cygwin as opposed to making use of Windows 7 Ultimate SUA (Subsystem for UNIX-based applications) support (formerly known as Interix). Apparently the SUA…

I'm using Interix on Windows for Unix compatibility and am finding the -p argument to mkdir not behaving as I expect: > which mkdir C:\SFU\bin\mkdir > mkdir -p c:\Program Files\ A subdirectory or file -p already exists. Error occurred while…

What could cause BASH commands to produce a segmentation fault when run from Interix v3.5? BASH was installed as directed by SUA. In experimentation, I've only encountered 'cd' functioning as expected. [computer src] ??? ls Segmentation fault (core…