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Subject: | Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2 |
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In-reply-to: | Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> 's message of Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:07:56 -0500 |
Reply-to: | Jeff DOT Hodges AT KingsMountain DOT com |
From: | Jeff DOT Hodges AT KingsMountain DOT com |
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Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:17:41 -0800 |
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skoehler AT upb DOT de said: > He clearly complained about MS-Software that cannot handle > cygwin-created links, and you're talking about cygwin understand its > own symlinks correct. thanks. cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com said: > Apologies. I took the word "altogether" to mean "completely" but > obviously missed the meaning implied by "from the windoze > perspective". accepted & understood. thanks. So, again, from the perspective of having cygwin-created symlinks that transparently behave as windows shortcuts, they (cygwin-created symlinks) are presently half-broken on XP. And if MSFT were to for some reason align their explorer code to match their Open-Save dialog code wrt how they treat (and discriminate between) shortcuts, cygwin-created symlink/shortcuts would likely quit working entirely *in the windows world* (they'd of course likely to continue to work fine in the cygwin world). If this were to come to pass and not be addressed by the cygwin community, then it wouldn't make any sense to have the the default (or even option) of creating cygwin symlinks as "winsymlinks". This would be a loose, imv. thanks, JeffH -- 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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