X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 20:12:03 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links Message-ID: <20060806001203.GF3109@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <44D27B36.1090400@andrew.cmu.edu> <20060804090559.GD8152@calimero.vinschen.de> <44D3963B.6090107@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D3963B.6090107@andrew.cmu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:47:23PM -0400, Adam Wolbach wrote: >>http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format >> >>The first match >> >>http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf >> >>is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the >>shortcut stuff. >> > >Thanks, this gets me more than halfway to what I need to know -- the >missing piece is how these fields need to be filled out to appear as a >symbolic link to cygwin. Worst case I can just hunt through the cygwin >source, but if you happen to know or have notes lying around somewhere, >it might be useful to more than just us to post them somewhere. Thanks >again. Is there some reason why you aren't just using cygwin's symlink() function? Reverse engineering and mimicking cygwin's symlinks seems to be a pretty fragile way of writing an application which will play nicely with cygwin. What if we change the way symlinks are written at some point? cgf -- 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/