X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:18:33 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: rsync of windows shortcuts creates foo and foo.lnk - never fully synchronizes From: Fred Wheeler To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id pBJCJ0eC010142 I just tried something different on a hunch. The problem still occurs when this mkshortcut command is replaced by a simple "touch winshortcut.lnk". So the problem I'm having seems to be due to the filename extension, not the contents of the file. Files with other extensions work fine. > # create a shortcut > cd /tmp/A/foo > mkshortcut \ >  --arguments="mintty" \ >  --name="winshortcut" \ >  --workingdir="$HOME" \ >  /bin/run -Fred -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple