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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:42:34 -0700
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Subject: Re: Cygwin, symlinks, and wine
From: Dan Kegel <dank AT kegel DOT com>
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Larry Hall
(Cygwin)<reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> This leads me to believe the best course of action is to solve this probl=
em
> in Wine and/or through =A0Unix/Linux means, rather than relying on patches
> to the apps running in Wine.

I tend to agree.  I'm going to have a look at using xattrs for this.
I had hesitated because I thought xattrs weren't widely deployed,
but it seems they're on by default in current ubuntu and fedora.
- Dan

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