Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/05/23/18:16:05
Hi Jason,
I'd look at "tar" which stores symlinks by default
and it's "-h" option to force following them.
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [SMTP:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 21:42
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Cc: Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com
> Subject: Re: CygUtils Version of zip (and Symlinks)
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >Chris,
> >
> >Chris Faylor wrote:
> >> If I am understanding what you're saying correctly, you are
> essentially
> >> trying to break cygwin's encapsulation of symlinks. There is no
> >> guarantee that a symlink will always begin with "!<symlink>" or
> >> even that the contents will contain any kind of magic denoting a
> symlink.
> >
> >That is why I called it a "very nasty hack." I'm try to elicit the
> >proper way to read the (raw) contents of a Cygwin symlink file -- if
> >one exists. Sounds like one doesn't.
>
> Actually, my version of zip for cygwin has a '-y' option that stores
> symlinks
> and unzip seems to restore them correctly.
>
> So, this is at least possible already.
>
> cgf
>
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