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On 15. 1. 2015 4:11, Greg Jung wrote:
> Yes I've seen that, if my second post appeared, the symlinks created with=
 cygwin are the ones giving me trouble.  These links are invisible to CMD.e=
xe, by someone's
> design:
>=20
> CYGWIN- created links in=20
>  Directory of e:\cygwin64\lib\nox
>=20
> 03/31/2014  09:39 AM    <DIR>          .
> 03/31/2014  09:39 AM    <DIR>          ..
> 07/01/2013  03:24 AM           336,710 libXpm-noX.a
> 07/01/2013  03:24 AM            43,690 libXpm-noX.dll.a
>                2 File(s)        380,400 bytes
>                2 Dir(s)  85,657,726,976 bytes free

I think these are cygwin emulated symlinks:

They are visible, just not by default. I suspect they are marked with the s=
ystem attribute. Use "dir /as" to show them. You should see a small size (i=
n order of tens of bytes).

You can instruct cygwin to create native NTFS symlinks, but due to a differ=
ent design, there are some restrictions. See this: <https://cygwin.com/cygw=
in-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks>

> So the question becomes, "why do cygwin symlinks look different, and how =
can a user program detect this attribute?

I assume you could detect them using cygwin *stat calls. Maybe by compiling=
 against cygwin headers and cygwin1.dll, or maybe by extracting the relevan=
t code from cygwin sources (you'd have to check the relevant licenses).

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David Macek


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