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On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:57 PM Jon Turney wrote:

>
> It turns out to be the case that setup doesn't propagate the CYGWIN
> environment variable into the environment for scripts it runs, so
> setting that isn't going to make any difference.  That should probably
> be considered a bug.
>
> However, even if that's fixed, there's no value for winsymlinks in
> CYGWIN env var to specify the behaviour of Cygwin 3.1.4 and previous
> (i.e. always create traditional symlinks, don't use WSL symlink reparse
> points)
>

Thanks Jon for the elaboration. Isn't winsymlinks=lnk supposed to do this
per the documentation? Could Corinna be convinced to include an option
where this can be done? To be honest, my hopes are greater to get this
worked-around in a useful timeframe from the Cygwin side than getting the
proper fix into Docker.

Michael
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