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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:36:56 +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 29 15:00, David Macek wrote:
> On 26. 11. 2015 12:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov 24 20:51, David Macek wrote:
> >> My test command is `touch 1 && ln -s 1 2`, then I clean up by `rm 1 2`=
. Now the results:
> >>
> >> in /bin/: relative
> >> in /: absolute
> >> in ~/ (/cygdrive/c/Users/username/): relative
> >> in /cygdrive/w/: absolute
> >>
> >> Note that W: is a permasubst (created using `DOSDevices` in registry),=
 which would explain the different behaviour (but not excuse it :), but I d=
on't see why / is also special. Even if only one from the link pair (target=
 or source) is in a relative-symlink-unsupporting path, I get an absolute p=
ath.
> >>
> >> Can you confirm?
> >=20
> > Yes, thanks for this part of the analysis.  There was a typo in the
> > code checking the relative paths.  The check for a drive colon in the
> > pathname used a wrong offset into the path string, which ultimately
> > always created an absolut path to the target if the path of the
> > target was in a drive's root dir or one level below that.
> >=20
> > I fixed that in the repo and created a new developer snapshot for
> > testing: https://cygwin.com/snapshots/  Please give it a try.
>=20
> I get relative symlinks in all of my test cases now. Thanks.

Cool, thanks for testing.


Corinna

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