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Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:12:26 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2 |
Message-ID: | <20050117171226.GJ20403@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> |
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References: | <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> <200501171625 DOT j0HGPQM13040 AT networking DOT Stanford DOT EDU> |
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:25:26AM -0800, Jeff DOT Hodges AT KingsMountain DOT com wrote: >> I'm glad that you're talking about "us" as a group. Anybody interested >> in tracking that down? > >I'm not in a position to hack code on this unfortunately, but I can offer to >test. > >I suspect it's important in the longer term to track this down because they >(MSFT) ~could~ make further changes down the road that break cygwin-created >symlinks altogether (from the windoze perspective), which'd more than just >"annoying". No, Microsoft is not going to break things so that cygwin's symlinks no longer operate. Cygwin understands its own version of symlinks very well. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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