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RE: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:12:33 -0500
- Subject: RE: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Joe Smith
> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 9:57 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: RFE: removing symbolic link / windows shortcut duality
>
> IIRC Cygwin *is* currently using windows shortcuts for
> symbolic links. Some simple checks confirm this.
> The shortcut files are sometimes fully formed such that they
> are editable by right clicking on them, others are only
> partially formed.
>
> Windows will resolve them, however symbolic links to
> executables using implicit '.exe' or symbolic links to
> symbolic links does not work correctly.
> Those are *not* things that can be fixed because for example
> the link may have originally pointed to file, which was later
> replaced by another link.
> Cygwin should not scan the drive for all links and update
> them, for that would be absurd.
A slightly less absurd notion would be for Cygwin to keep a list of all
links and update them.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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