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Date: | Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:35:12 +0200 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Howto get Cygwin<->Linux interoperability on NTFS filesystems (symbolic links issue) |
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On Aug 26 21:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > It would be no big problem to support Interix > symlink R/O support as well. After all this time without Interix > symlink support, I don't think it's such a pressing problem, though. > I'll add it to my TODO list for the time after 1.7.1 has been released. Never mind. It was easier than I anticipated. I checked in a patch to support reading Interix symlinks. However, this only works as expected for relative symlinks, since absolute paths in Interix are different from absolute paths in Cygwin due to the different layout of the filesystem tree. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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