Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Joe Smith" Subject: Re: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:57:22 -0400 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <20050812171651 DOT GW24621 AT nsa DOT org> <6 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 0 DOT 20050812150046 DOT 03d74dd8 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes IIRC Cygwin *is* currently using windows shortcuts for symbolic links. Some simple checks confirm this. The shortcut files are sometimes fully formed such that they are editable by right clicking on them, others are only partially formed. Windows will resolve them, however symbolic links to executables using implicit '.exe' or symbolic links to symbolic links does not work correctly. Those are *not* things that can be fixed because for example the link may have originally pointed to file, which was later replaced by another link. Cygwin should not scan the drive for all links and update them, for that would be absurd. Besides those two cases, the links work just fine as windows shortcuts. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/