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Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:17:31 -0400
From: Lee Dilkie <lee_dilkie AT mitel DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cd not following windows shortcuts
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And on top of that (top posting too), even windows cmd console won't let 
you follow .lnk files... They are files, not symlinks. Only explorer 
know how to navigate them.

-lee

Brian Dessent wrote:
> Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>
>   
>> Right, it isn't a directory. But shouldn't Cygwin convert the path and
>> follow it just the same? Is there something wrong with the behavior
>> I'm seeing?
>>     
>
> For one thing, the .lnk must have the R attribute set in order for
> Cygwin to even consider it a symlink and not a regular file, and
> normally Explorer does not set the R attribute.  And of course a .lnk
> created with Explorer will not have the POSIX path set in the
> 'description' field, meaning that it can only point to an absolute Win32
> path unless you hand edit the field.  Moreover the symlink reading code
> in Cygwin does not contain a full parser for the shortcut file format
> (which AFAIK is some kind of undocumented memory dump of a shell COM
> object, which can take on many forms e.g. a shortcut to Control Panel),
> only enough to read the specific format that Cygwin creates, so it
> wouldn't surprise me if it was possible to create all kinds of shortcuts
> in Explorer that Cygwin can't parse.
>
> You might be lucky and simply setting +R might suffice, I have no idea. 
> But if it doesn't, realize that the intent of the feature was for
> Cygwin-created symlinks to also work in Explorer as a bonus, not
> necessarily the other way around.
>
> Brian
>
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