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On Aug 20 20:27, Dave Korn wrote:
> Ralph Hempel wrote on 20 August 2008 20:19:
> 
>  
> > Ooooh. This is nice. How does Cygiwn keep track of this link? Does
> > it survive a reboot?
> 
>   Yeh, sure, it's a bog-standard softlink implemented using a windows .lnk
> shortcut file just like any other made by cygwin's "ln" command.

In 1.7 we're back to system-type symlinks by default.  They are simply a
lot faster.


Corinna

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