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According to Frank Fesevur on 10/12/2006 12:44 AM:
>>   Maybe the base-files package should create the symlinks to cygdrive
>> paths in
>> the first place?  It solves the problem:
> 
> Indeed it should do so. OR there should be an automatic translation when
> the link is made. Also solves the problem.

Sorry, but I don't think I will be spending the time to patch ln to check
whether it is linking to a DOS path.  Symlinks are supposed to be textual,
with no regards to what it is pointing to, and I have already added enough
cygwin-specific stuff for special casing .exe when doing symlinks.

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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