Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <1DB8BA4BAC88D3118B2300508B5A552CD931BD@mail.fitlinxx.com> From: David Bolen To: "'cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com'" Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionali ty Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:42:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Bernard Dautrevaux writes: > Thanks for the fact that now we can follow these using Win native tools, at > least to the extent we do not move things around under windows and rearrange > mount points for cygwin ;-| Right, but I think the priorities are right in this approach in that the Cygwin tools are always fine, and it's just the "foreign" Windows tools that are at a disadvantage. > However I don't see any way out of this unfortunately, as in this case the > DOS and CYGWIN paths get out of sync: we've probably created a new area of > problems and complains (by newbies or oldies)... You may be right, but I think it's worth the risk. One of the things stopping me from using symbolic links in more than my own development environment is precisely that I've got to work in a mixed environment (I still use textmode on most of my mounts for the same reason). I've got a file distribution tree that I'd love to use symbolic links on but there are native tools that also have to see them when validating the tree prior to distribution. Now I didn't consider this to be Cygwin's fault nor responsibility to fix, but this change sounds like it's just the ticket! -- David /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ David Bolen \ E-mail: db3l AT fitlinxx DOT com / | FitLinxx, Inc. \ Phone: (203) 708-5192 | / 860 Canal Street, Stamford, CT 06902 \ Fax: (203) 316-5150 \ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple