Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:09:09 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality Message-ID: <20010222120909.I908@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <20010221232921.X908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <21157045389.20010222102353@logos-m.ru> <20010222115142.H908@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010222115142.H908@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:51:42AM +0100 On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:51:42AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > When you create a symlink/shortcut in Cygwin which in turn points to a > shortcut it will remain this way. Explorer tries to resolve the path > again but it will not show any target path for some reason. There's > still a difference in the shortcuts created by Cygwin in contrast to > shortcuts created by U/WIN. I will try to figure out what it is. Just found the reason. I have checked in two patches already. One to repeal that difference to U/WIN, another to solve a problem when trying to open a file via a symlink. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple