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Re: Please don't resolve native symbolic links in cygwin_conv_path


On 01/06/2011 06:39 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> If a POSIX path supplied to cygwin_conv_path ends in a symbolic link,
> the returned path refers to the target of that link. Normally, that's
> a good thing because native programs can't understand Cygwin links.
> But this behavior is unwanted when we're looking at a *native*
> symbolic link that all programs can understand. It's needlessly
> specific and rather surprising, and is causing trouble with a program
> I'm writing that manipulates native symbolic links.

Is this something where we should add a new CCP_ flag to
cygwin_conv_path's what argument that allows the user the choice between
following or stopping at native symlinks?

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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