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Date:	Mon, 1 Apr 2019 15:31:49 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Cygwin vs. Native Symlinks
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On Apr  1 07:39, KARL BOTTS wrote:
>=20
> Corinna said:
>=20
> > ... Which lets symlinking with nativestrict fail. "winsymlinks:native"
> > will work, albeit creating a Cygwin symlink then.
>=20
>=20
> I use "winsymlinks:native".  Is there a tool or method with which I can
> create a Cygwin symlink by force?

$ CYGWIN=3D"" ln -s ...

> (I doubt I would actually want to:

Depends on if creating a symlink to a non-existant target is important
in your scenarios.  Just run with "winsymlinks:nativestrict" for a while
to find out.

> I just want to know if I can, and to test behavior of a Cygwin symlink.)
>=20
> Is there a tool which will tell me whether a given symlink is Cygwin or
> native?

Not a single tool, but a few simple checks:

- `ls -l' shows a symlink
- `attrib /l' shows the S bit being set (cygwin symlink) or not
- `cmd /c dir' will not show a cygwin symlink as symlink

> (The output of both readlink and symlinks looks the same, regardless.)

That's the idea of a transparent POSIX layer, the API hiding
the implementation details :)


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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