* [PATCH] Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin creates NTFS symlinks [not found] <20151118200719.GW6402@calimero.vinschen.de> @ 2015-11-24 22:59 ` David Macek 0 siblings, 0 replies; only message in thread From: David Macek @ 2015-11-24 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-patches [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1133 bytes --] 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> </listitem> <listitem> -- 2.6.2.windows.1 -- David Macek [-- Attachment #2: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature --] [-- Type: application/pkcs7-signature, Size: 4254 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] only message in thread
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