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According to Paul McFerrin on 3/1/2010 12:27 AM:
> Sometime within the past 1-2 years, the format of symbolic links must
> have changed.  I keep finding broken links in my web pages.  The
> directory bit is still set but the System attribute is not set anymore.

The release of cygwin 1.7.1 changed the format to accommodate UTF-8 filenam=
es.

>=20
> If it is true that symbolic links did change, I would like to know which
> cygwin1.dll implemented the change and if this dll is still available.=20

Yes, cygwin 1.7.1 is still available.

> I want to write a tool to search for these mangled links and fix them.=20

find -L -type l

is one easy way to find broken symlinks.

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Eric Blake   eblake AT redhat DOT com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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