Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040212140932.03917528@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:12:00 -0500 To: Chris Jefferson , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: NTFS links In-Reply-To: <402BC29F.1040805@cs.york.ac.uk> References: <45460.12.161.72.17.1076608060.squirrel@webmail.io.com> <402BC29F.1040805@cs.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:14 PM 2/12/2004, Chris Jefferson you wrote: >Cygwin includes quite a number of symlinks. I personally have changed a number of the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones to fix (as has been mentioned recently) the problem that cygwin-style symlinks don't work from cmd > >Would it be possible to automagically change all the cygwin-style symlinks to windows-style ones? is there anything I should watch for if I attempted such a thing? Setup creates the "old-style" symlinks. A patch to it that creates "new-style" is one way of automagically doing this. A script could be concocted too. 'ln -s' creates the "new-style" by default. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/