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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 20:48:19 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Symlink targets dereferenced when winsymlinks:native
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On Nov 18 19:13, David Macek wrote:
> On 18. 11. 2015 18:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov 17 23:28, David Macek wrote:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I went through the UG looking for differences between regular Cygwin
> >> symlinks and NTFS symlinks, but couldn't find this documented. It
> >> seems that when using winsymlinks:native, the target path is first
> >> dereferenced before storing it in the link.
> >=20
> > It's a result of the native symlink being a Windows path.  The
> > ultimate conversion from POSIX to Windows path dereferences all
> > symlinks.
>=20
> Should that behaviour stay?

Yes.  Consider that neither Cygwin or Interix symlinks with SYSTEM bit
set, nor symlinks using WIndows shortcuts make any sense as part of a
native symlink.  As a result, Cygwin does a full path conversion from
POSIX to symlink-less Windows path to crate native symlinks.

> If not, I can send a patch for the UG.

UG?

> > Thanks for the report, I'll apply a matching patch.
>=20
> Cool.

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=3Dnewlib-cygwin.git;h=3D8cdd7bad219ba2657e381=
bd0d716594c50a6ef62


Corinna

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