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Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 04:52:39 +0300
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To: Rainer Emrich <rainer AT emrich-ebersheim DOT de>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Change in logical link behaviour
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Greetings, Rainer Emrich!

> I try to reliably determine if native Windows symlink are working for a
> current cygwin environment in a shell script.

> Therefor I used a powershell snipped:

> mkdir asdfgh
> ln -s asdfgh/ asdfgh-1
> powershell "& {Get-Item -Path asdfgh-1 | Select-Object}"

> On cygwin 3.0.7 the output is as follows:


>     Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp


> Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
> ----                -------------         ------ ----
> d----l       29.02.2020     13:58                asdfgh-1

> On cygwin 3.1.4 I get:


>     Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp


> Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
> ----                -------------         ------ ----
> d----        29.02.2020     13:58                asdfgh-1

> So now there is no indication that this is a link. Is this new behaviour
> intended or a bug?

> I did not try on Windows 10, I'm still on windows 7.

I get the same behavior is not using Cygwin to create the link at all, this is
probably a change in how Cygwin interprets symlinks.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, March 1, 2020 4:51:46

Sorry for my terrible english...


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