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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'Corinna Vinschen'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionali
	ty
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:19:53 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:27 PM
> To: cygwin
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link
> functionality
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 03:26:05PM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> > try this:
> > 
> > ==================================
> > cd /tmp
> > mkdir -p symlink_test/1
> > mkdir -p symlink_test/2
> > touch symlink_test/1/1.fil
> > touch symlink_test/2/2.fil
> > cd symlink_test
> > ln -s 1 t1
> > ln -s ../2 t1/new_2
> > cd /tmp
> > mv symlink_test ~/
> > cd ~/symlink_test/t1/new_2
> > ls
> > ==================================
> > ls should show 2.fil
> > 
> > now open <your_home_dir>/symlink_test/1/ with explorer and 
> oops, new_2
> > isn't shortcut anymore.
> 
> You're right. This error is reproducable in Cygwin and U/WIN.
> 
> However, I have just changed Cygwin to do it right ;-)
> 
> The problem is that a shortcut has to contain a DOS path, obviously.
> The new strategy is as follows:
> 
> - If the target path is an absolute path save the absolute DOS path.
> 
> - If the target doesn't exist save a relative DOS path (who cares?).
> 
> - If the target path is accessible as relative DOS path save 
> that relative
>   DOS path.
> 
> - If both of above fails save the absolute path.

I don't really understand the last one; why if the target exist but is not
accessible do you want to save it's absolute path rather than the relative
one? AFAIRC the usual *NIX semantics is "save the target path as given, that
is absolute if given absolute, relative otherwise).

> 
> At least your above given example now works.
> Corinna
> 

	Bernard

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