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Re: Problem with Windows .lnk files treated as Symlinks
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: Problem with Windows .lnk files treated as Symlinks
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:44:54 -0400
- References: <549191FE7B71D311BC5900104B292132010E4F8C@kirk.takefive.co. at> <4.3.1.2.20010503104233.02700c48@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:48:05AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>2.) If CYGWIN=nowinsymlinks is set, not only symbolic link
>> creation but also symbolic link interpretation should
>> be "classical", i.e. *.lnk files are treated as files.
>
>This may be indicative of a bug.
This isn't a bug. The setting is only to force creation of old style symlinks.
Either style is supposed to be recognized on "reading". I suppose the option
could have been "nocreatewinsymlinks"...
cgf
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