Message-Id: <200508140312.j7E3CgCS014335@delorie.com> 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 From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:12:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joe Smith > Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 9:57 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality > > IIRC Cygwin *is* currently using windows shortcuts for > symbolic links. Some simple checks confirm this. > The shortcut files are sometimes fully formed such that they > are editable by right clicking on them, others are only > partially formed. > > Windows will resolve them, however symbolic links to > executables using implicit '.exe' or symbolic links to > symbolic links does not work correctly. > Those are *not* things that can be fixed because for example > the link may have originally pointed to file, which was later > replaced by another link. > Cygwin should not scan the drive for all links and update > them, for that would be absurd. A slightly less absurd notion would be for Cygwin to keep a list of all links and update them. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/