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Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Jan Hlavacek <jhlavace at svsu dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:01:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP
- References: <s1f8f7f1.045@gw.svsu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jan 27 14:16, Jan Hlavacek wrote:
> I am not on the list, but I hope this will get through. I came across
> this discussion while I was searching for an answer to similar problem.
There are a couple of postings in the ML archives, all from this month,
which should explain the behaviour pretty well. There's a patch in
current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon problem. But as soon as
you change the icon, the shortcut is changed by Windows in a way which
invalidates it as symlink for Cygwin. That's nothing we can change
without breaking other things. If you want to use a shortcut in Cygwin
and in native Windows, create it in Cygwin and don't touch it.
> [FAQ]
> Since version 1.3.0, Cygwin treats shortcuts as symlinks. "
I'll change the text in the FAQ.
Corinna
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