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 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3A956DFF.A61DDBE6@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:52:31 -0500 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: Earnie Boyd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionali ty References: <17B78BDF120BD411B70100500422FC6309E210@IIS000> <20010222184404.S908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3A955952.6FF234D4@ece.gatech.edu> <20010222140454.F13561@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > >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. > Guess what happens when you rename a directory that a shortcut is dependent upon in Win32? I think a documentation entry would suffice. Perhaps some tool, perhaps even mount, could take care of modifying the .lnk files with absolute paths in them after a move of the mount point. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple