* [PATCH] Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin creates NTFS symlinks
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@ 2015-11-24 22:59 ` David Macek
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From: David Macek @ 2015-11-24 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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>
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