Bug #14681 Symbolic Links do not work in Windows version 5.0.15
Submitted: 6 Nov 2005 17:53 Modified: 6 Nov 2005 20:45
Reporter: Helmut Leininger Email Updates:
Status: Duplicate Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S2 (Serious)
Version:5.0.15 OS:Windows (Windows XP)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[6 Nov 2005 17:53] Helmut Leininger 
Description:
symbolic links (xxx.sym) are ignored in version 5.0.15 of mysql windows32. This problem is not present in version 5.0.13-rc1.

How to repeat:
create a database that is referred to by a symbolic link to another disk.
[6 Nov 2005 19:02] MySQL Verification Team 
I am not sure if this bug it is a duplicate.

c:\mysql\bin>mysql -uroot
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 5.0.15-nt

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show variables like "%sym%";
+---------------+-------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---------------+-------+
| have_symlink  | NO    |
+---------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.05 sec)

c:\mysql\bin>mysql -uroot
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 5.0.15-nt-max

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show variables like "%sym%";
+---------------+-------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---------------+-------+
| have_symlink  | NO    |
+---------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.06 sec)

c:\mysql\bin>mysql -uroot
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 5.0.15-max

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show variables like "%sym%";
+---------------+-------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---------------+-------+
| have_symlink  | NO    |
+---------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.08 sec)

c:\mysql\bin>mysql -uroot
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 5.0.15

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show variables like "%sym%";
+---------------+-------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---------------+-------+
| have_symlink  | NO    |
+---------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.06 sec)
[6 Nov 2005 20:45] MySQL Verification Team 
Duplicate of bug:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=14310