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On Aug 26 21:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>   It would be no big problem to support Interix
> symlink R/O support as well.  After all this time without Interix
> symlink support, I don't think it's such a pressing problem, though.
> I'll add it to my TODO list for the time after 1.7.1 has been released.

Never mind.  It was easier than I anticipated.  I checked in a patch to
support reading Interix symlinks.  However, this only works as expected
for relative symlinks, since absolute paths in Interix are different
from absolute paths in Cygwin due to the different layout of the
filesystem tree.


Corinna

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