From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add more winsymlinks values
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 12:24:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <616f5f9b-83e2-689c-bda3-dddc50dff5f0@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YPfYgz0EHe7Yw5ko@calimero.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 19 17:31, Jon Turney wrote:
>> I'm not sure this is the best idea, since it adds more configurations that
>> aren't going to get tested often, but the idea is that this would enable
>> proper and consistent control of the symlink type used from setup, as
>> discussed in [1].
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2021-May/041327.html
> Why isn't it sufficient to use 'winsymlinks:native' from setup?
>
> The way we express symlinks shouldn't be a user choice, really. The
> winsymlinks thingy was only ever introduced in a desperate attempt to
> improve access to symlinks from native tools, and I still don't see a
> way around that. But either way, what's the advantage in allowing the
> user complete control over the type, even if the type is only useful in
> Cygwin?
>
WSL compatible symlinks introduce several issues with non-Cygwin
Copy/Archive/Backup tools (robocopy behaves strange, 7-Zip stores these
as empty files, ...). If WSL itself is not used on a machine, there is
possibly no benefit using such symlinks for Cygwin there.
I usually prefer the old "magic" cookie SYSTEM files, in particular on
portable installs for "rescue" purposes. Patch 2/3 would allow to select
these.
+1 from me for this enhancement.
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-21 10:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-19 16:31 Jon Turney
2021-07-19 16:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] Rename WSYM_sysfile to WSM_default Jon Turney
2021-07-19 16:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add winsymlinks:magic Jon Turney
2021-07-19 16:31 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add winsymlinks:wslstrict Jon Turney
2021-07-21 8:19 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add more winsymlinks values Corinna Vinschen
2021-07-21 10:24 ` Christian Franke [this message]
2021-07-22 8:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-07-22 13:53 ` Jon Turney
2021-07-22 14:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-07-28 19:55 ` Jon Turney
2021-07-29 10:23 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-07-29 10:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
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