Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:49:20 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: 1.7.0: Getting a Windows app to run synchronously to a script 	from  which it is invoked
Message-ID: <20090324134920.GG9322@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <49C6D72D.4090804@veritech.com> <20090323092845.GJ9322@calimero.vinschen.de> <49C822E9.2050603@veritech.com> <20090324101715.GC9322@calimero.vinschen.de> <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF3062B6166@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <297343D29C14AA4D822142893ABEAEF3062B6166@srv1163ex1.flightsafety.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20)
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

On Mar 24 08:37, Thrall, Bryan wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:17 AM:
> > Hmm.  What kind of "softlink" are you talking about?  Is that a
> > Windows shortcut created by Windows?  Or is that a Cygwin symlink?
> > If the latter, did you create the symlink way back when, or did you
> > create the symlink under Cygwin 1.7?  If the latter, the symlink
> > is probably not a Windows shortcut anymore, rather the other Cygwin
> > style of symlink which is a file with the SYSTEM DOS attribute set.
> > In this case it's no wonder Windows opens the file, rather than to
> > follow the shortcut to its target.  I made the change because the
> > SYSTEM type shortcuts are faster.  If you want to have the Windows
> > shortcut style symlinks back because you use them to interoperate
> > with native Windows tools, you have to set the CYGWIN=winsymlinks
> > option now.
> 
> This is a change from 1.5, right? The 1.5 user guide says "winsimlinks"
> is the default, and the 1.7 user guide says "nowinsimlinks" is.
> 
> It seems like this change was missed in
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html

Right, it was only documented inside the User's Guide, for instance in
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html

I'll fix that.


Thanks for the reminder,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
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/