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Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:09:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2
- References: <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> <200501151617.j0FGHjx16619@networking.Stanford.EDU>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jan 15 08:17, Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com wrote:
> Seems to me we ought to see if we can't update the symlink() impl such that
> this is addressed. I'm betting there's some new attributes or whatever (as
> Igor notes) that've been added to symlinks in XP and if we can figure out what
> that is, and figure out what the minimum is we need to change in our
> cygwin-created .lnk files, we can perhaps (likely?) fix this without adversely
> affecting performance. Maybe there's some new system call on XP that we can
> use to create these buggers (if we're lucky)? After all, AFAIK, all cygwin
> cares about is the cygwin path being in the .lnk file's "comment"
> attribute/field, yes?
I'm glad that you're talking about "us" as a group. Anybody interested
in tracking that down?
Corinna
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