X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: [Ping Python maintainer]: enhancement request Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:49:59 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: 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> <4637941B.E61C17EC@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 * Brian Dessent (Tue, 01 May 2007 12:25:15 -0700) > 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. I can't confirm that: I've created a shortcut to setup.exe and started the link called setup.lnk in cmd.exe and setup.exe was started. The same with a command line program. -- 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/