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At 11-10-2006 19:36, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 11 October 2006 18:15, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> 
>> I've tried his test case and Mark is right. When a symlink is created
>> with a win32 path, vim can not create the swapfile. When a symlink is
>> created with POSIX filenames there is no problem.
> 
>   Well of course not.  Cygwin - as a special feature - interprets DOS paths.
> VIM has no notion of them, so when it reads the symlink content and tries to
> figure out which directory it is pointing to a file in, it can't understand
> what's going on.
> 
>   The solution I'm afraid is "WDDTT" WRT creating cygwin symlinks with dos
> paths.  Cygwin can do magical path translation when someone passes an argument
> to open(...), but there's no way it can know when a program reads a path from
> somewhere and manipulates it itself.
> 
>   Maybe the base-files package should create the symlinks to cygdrive paths in
> the first place?  It solves the problem:

Indeed it should do so. OR there should be an automatic translation when 
the link is made. Also solves the problem.

Regards,
Frank

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