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: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:34:10 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionali ty Message-ID: <20010223093410.G908@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <20010222184404.S908@cygbert.vinschen.de> <000501c09d6d$932ab6a0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000501c09d6d$932ab6a0$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:52:31AM +0300 On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:52:31AM +0300, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: > > > > > The shortcut contains a DOS path and a POSIX path. The POSIX path is > > used by Cygwin or U/WIN. The DOS path is used by native Windows tools, > > obviously. > > > > That is, when I open shortcut properties in Explorer I see DOS path? Then > there is a possibility that user changes shortcut there and DOS/Cygwin paths > differ. One way to store paths checksums in .lnk; but it is not clear what to > do in this case - you cannot recreate possibly relative Unix path from changed > DOS one. Probably, in this case the right thing is to invalidate Unix path in > shortcut alltogether. It's exactly what is done by Cygwin. A shortcut created by Cygwin or U/WIN has a special header format which is sort of uncommon. Additionally, the R/O attribute is set and maintained by Cygwin and U/WIN. When a user changes a shortcut s/he has to remove the R/O attribute first. If that attribute isn't set the shortcut is treated as a standard Explorer shortcut. If a user changes the content of the shortcut the header format changes since Explorer creates a completely different header. Even if the user sets back the R/O attribute the new header avoids that Cygwin uses the POSIX path in future and the shortcut is treated as all other Explorer shortcuts. They are treated as a symlink with only a DOS path pointing to the target. 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