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