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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
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Subject: Re: Native symbolic link behavior is broken and makes backups using
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Matt D. via Cygwin writes:
> The normal behavior for both Windows and Linux is to create the
> symbolic link whether the target exists or not.

That's not the case on Windows or rather it has restrictions that can
trip you up.  On Windows you must specify if the symbolic link points to
a directory or a file in order to create a symbolic link to a
non-existing file.  If that information is not available, it is
obviously safer to not create the symbolic link.


Regards,
Achim.
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