X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4637941B.E61C17EC@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 12:25:15 -0700 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request References: <20070501120623.GA3824@tishler.net> <20070501133951.GB17841@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <463747BC.3050002@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20070501142125.GD17841@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20070501183206.GA1464@tishler.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Thorsten Kampe wrote: > What about this "winsymlinks" Cygwin environment variable? The > description says "if set, Cygwin creates symlinks as Windows shortcuts > with a special header and the R/O attribute set. If not set, Cygwin > creates symlinks as plain files with a magic number, a path and the > system attribute set. Defaults to set". > > So why don't the symlinks "work" under Windows (despite being "created > as Windows shortcuts with a special header")?? They do work, in Explorer. Or in common dialogs, like file-open, file-save-as, etc. But CMD.EXE doesn't know anything about Explorer shortcuts, so it will never do the right thing. Brian -- 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/