Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 20:12:03 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:47:23PM -0400, Adam Wolbach wrote:
>>http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format
>>
>>The first match
>>
>>http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf
>>
>>is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the
>>shortcut stuff.
>>
>
>Thanks, this gets me more than halfway to what I need to know -- the 
>missing piece is how these fields need to be filled out to appear as a 
>symbolic link to cygwin. Worst case I can just hunt through the cygwin 
>source, but if you happen to know or have notes lying around somewhere, 
>it might be useful to more than just us to post them somewhere. Thanks 
>again.

Is there some reason why you aren't just using cygwin's symlink()
function?  Reverse engineering and mimicking cygwin's symlinks seems to
be a pretty fragile way of writing an application which will play nicely
with cygwin.  What if we change the way symlinks are written at some
point?

cgf

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