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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 07:48:43 -0800
From: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
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Subject: Re: Treating Junctions consistently, as "normal dirs" as w/linux "bind"-type mount
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Andrey Repin wrote:
> I would argue against all junctions being treated blindly.
> The difference with bind mounts in Linux is that in Linux 
> you don't have the
> information available within the filesystem itself, and have 
> no other option,
> than to treat them as regular directories.
> Only direct volume junctions cause an issue, and this is what 
> should be fixed,
> if possible, not sidetracked with questionable workarounds.
----
	Could you describe the benefits of your proposed solution?

	You do know that MS originally called junctions "mountpoints",
right?  So why would cygwin treating them as such be a "questionable 
workaround"?

	How would you want to treat them?

	
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