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 13:03:58 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality Message-ID: <20010222130358.O11175@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <20010221232921.X908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <21157045389.20010222102353@logos-m.ru> <20010222115142.H908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20010222120909.I908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <180175177361.20010222152605@logos-m.ru> <20010222172713.L908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20010222113656.I11175@redhat.com> <20010222183028.Q908@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010222183028.Q908@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:30:28PM +0100 On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:30:28PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:36:56AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:27:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >The problem is that a shortcut has to contain a DOS path, obviously. >> >The new strategy is as follows: >> >> If this is the case, then we can't use .lnk files as the default symlinks. >> DOS paths are not UNIX paths. The mount table will be bypassed in the symlinks. > >Nooo! The shortcut contains a DOS path which will be used by native >Windows tools _and_ a POSIX path which will be used by Cygwin. Thanks for the clarification. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple