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Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox


On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:41:17AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Yes, but when you create a symlink, that's exactly what you're doing
> (storing the result).  Or are you suggesting re-creating the symlinks on
> the fly every time?  Can you think of another way of making symlinks
> mount-independent?

No but AFAICS there should be no need to create a symlink to a file
installed through setup using the cygdrive prefix.  All these files
are surely inside of the / mount and so all these symlinks should
always use either the full path from the Cygwin root or (better) a
relative path.

Corinna

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