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Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed


On 4/30/2013 03:57, Denis Excoffier wrote:
> The pop-up is produced even before login, presumably during the load of
> "bash --login -i" (but i also have /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, so this may also
> be the reason).
> 
> I don't understand why a symlink is created during login, but in any case,
> one can observe that CreateSymbolicLinkW was introduced in path.cc
> during http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2013-q2/msg00046.html, that occurred
> immediately before the snapshot.
> 

A symlink is not necessarily created, the PE symbols are resolved at
start up and it is missing in your system. There is little you can do
about it.

Yes, it was a recent change, Corinna will have to fix that if XP is to
be supported.


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