[PATCH] Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin creates NTFS symlinks

[David Macek <david dot macek dot 0 at gmail dot com>]

First take on how to describe dereferencing of Cygwin-only symlinks path components when creating NTFS symlinks.

Note that I haven't tried building the documentation, so I don't know if the added paragraph breaks anything. Hopefully not.

	* pathnames.xml: Add a section describing peculiarities
	of how Cygwin creates NTFS symlinks

---
 winsup/doc/pathnames.xml | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml
index cdbf9fa..9077303 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml
@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ these two settings, see <xref linkend="using-cygwinenv"></xref>.
 On AFS, native symlinks are the only supported type of symlink due to
 AFS lacking support for DOS attributes.  This is independent from the
 <literal>winsymlinks</literal> setting.</para>
+<para>Creation of native symlinks follows special rules to ensure the links
+are usable outside of Cygwin. This includes dereferencing any Cygwin-only
+symlinks that lie in the target path.</para>
 </listitem>
 
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2.6.2.windows.1

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David Macek

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