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 14:04:54 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionali ty Message-ID: <20010222140454.F13561@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Corinna Vinschen References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E210@IIS000> <20010222184404.S908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3A955952.6FF234D4@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <3A955952.6FF234D4@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:24:18PM -0500 On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:24:18PM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> The POSIX path in the shortcut which is used by Cygwin is saved EXACTLY >> as it's given. So there is no change in behaviour as far as Cygwin is >> concerned!!! OTOH the symlinks now have a meaning for DOS tools as well. >> >> I can't see a disadvantage here. > >Sounds like a good system to me. The only drawback I can see -- and I >don't mean this as a criticism, it's simply unavoidable -- is the >following: > >If you create a symlink that points to an object and spans a mount >entry, both the "cygwin" path and the "dos" path will 'do the right >thing' and point where you think they should. > >Then, change the underlying mount entry. > >The "cygwin" path will point to the new location (since it is >interpreted using the new mount entry) but the "dos" path will still >point to the old (possibly non-existant, now) location because it *was* >interpreted at symlink-creation-time using the old mount table. > >IMO, this slight and rare inconvenience is worth the price -- at least >now, symlinks will mostly work from Explorer. Let's be honest, now: how >often do you really rearrange your mount table? I don't change my mount table very often but this is still potentially very surprising behavior for a user. I don't think we should dismiss it lightly, as much as I like the idea of using .lnk files. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple