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native symlink
- From: James Gregurich <bayoubengal at mac dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:53:55 -0700
- Subject: native symlink
- References: <20130327151656 dot GB5860 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
Why don't you add an API call and utility to actually convert an existing cygwin symlink into a native symlink. I'll give you code that does the work. Cygwin already reads and uses the native symlinks. you might as well provide a way to create them.
On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> - Since Vista and the introduction of native symlinks, the OS has
> multiple ways to suppress symlink usage. By default, remote symlinks
> are disallowed, or better, they are not evaluated and the OS returns
> an error instead. This can be changed with the on-board fsutil
> utility. Cygwin didn't yet handle the case that symlinks couldn't be
> read. That's fixed now. Cygwin returns ELOOP for unreadable
> symlinks. ENOENT wouldn't work in this scenario.
>