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On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, 22:24 Jon Turney wrote:

> On 27/08/2020 06:48, Michael Wild via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:57 PM Jon Turney wrote:
> >>
> >> 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?
>
> No.
>
> I'm not sure what documentation you are looking at, but [1][2] seems
> reasonably clear that the behaviour of Cygwin 3.1.4 and earlier (what I
> referred to as "traditional cygwin symlinks") isn't the same as ".lnk
> symlinks".
>
> [1] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
> [2] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html


Ah, I was jumping ahead there. My intention was having no WSL symlink
reparse points. And per my experiments, winsymlinks:lnk gets that job done.

Michael
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