Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality

[Egor Duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>]

Hi!

Thursday, 22 February, 2001 Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:

CV> I want to announce a change to the symlink functionality of Cygwin
CV> which introduces an incompatibility when trying to revert to older
CV> versions of the Cygwin DLL.

CV> Currently symbolic links are files with the content

CV>         !<symlink>filename

CV> where filename is the name the symlink points to. Additionally
CV> the symlinks have the system bit set.

CV> The new version can still read this style of links but it creates
CV> a new style which is compatible to symlinks created by U/WIN.

CV> Symlinks are now Windows shortcuts (*.lnk files). They are created
CV> in a special format which is transparent to Windows Explorer and
CV> U/WIN.

i  haven't  looked  at new implementation yet, but i know at least one
problem  with  the  way  explorer  treats  .lnk  files.  if you create
shortcut  b.lnk pointing to file a.exe and then create (with explorer)
shortcut  c.lnk,  pointing  to  b.lnk, explorer automatically resolves
c.lnk  and make it point to a.exe! (Duh, that "optimizers" at microsoft
made a good "gift" to sysadmins)

Wouldn't it be a problem here? won't explorer spoil symlink-to-symlink
by just opening it? 

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19



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