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Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:12:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2
- References: <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> <200501171625.j0HGPQM13040@networking.Stanford.EDU>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:25:26AM -0800, Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com wrote:
>> I'm glad that you're talking about "us" as a group. Anybody interested
>> in tracking that down?
>
>I'm not in a position to hack code on this unfortunately, but I can offer to
>test.
>
>I suspect it's important in the longer term to track this down because they
>(MSFT) ~could~ make further changes down the road that break cygwin-created
>symlinks altogether (from the windoze perspective), which'd more than just
>"annoying".
No, Microsoft is not going to break things so that cygwin's symlinks no
longer operate. Cygwin understands its own version of symlinks very well.
cgf
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