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On 20. 11. 2015 10:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov 19 19:53, David Macek wrote:
>> On 18. 11. 2015 20:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Nov 18 19:13, David Macek wrote:
>>>> On 18. 11. 2015 18:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>> On Nov 17 23:28, David Macek wrote:
>>>>>> I went through the UG looking for differences between regular Cygwin
>>>>>> symlinks and NTFS symlinks, but couldn't find this documented. It
>>>>>> seems that when using winsymlinks:native, the target path is first
>>>>>> dereferenced before storing it in the link.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a result of the native symlink being a Windows path.  The
>>>>> ultimate conversion from POSIX to Windows path dereferences all
>>>>> symlinks.
>>
>> Hmm. I just performed a test on my Cygwin installation and it doesn't
>> seem to match the described behavior.
>=20
> Symlinks within the path, e.g : /home/foo/symlink/bar/baz
>=20
> If the above symlink is not a native symlink, the above path
> converted to Windows notation
>=20
>   C:\cygwin64\home\foo\symlink\bar\baz
>=20
> is invalid.

Ah. Now I understand. Thanks.

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