From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Treat Windows Store's "app execution aliases" as symbolic links
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:30:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFm1GF/90te95gh8@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <830d2446-691e-957e-9531-856e58e79c08@t-online.de>
On Mar 22 22:54, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 22.03.2021 um 16:22 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:
> > One of those under-documented reparse point types is the WSL symbolic
> > link, which you will notice are supported in Cygwin, removing quite some
> > sway from your argument...
>
> I notice no such thing right now, running the currently available release
> version 3.1.7:
>
> stat: cannot stat '//wsl$/Debian/home/hbbro/link_to_a': Input/output error
What type of WSL symlink is that? Cygwin reads WSL 1 symlinks(*) and
creates them by default in symlink(2) cals since Cygwin 3.1.5.
(*) IO_REPARSE_TAG_LX_SYMLINK 0xa000001d
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-23 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-12 15:11 Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-12 17:03 ` Joe Lowe
2021-03-14 0:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-14 3:41 ` Joe Lowe
2021-03-15 3:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-15 19:04 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2021-03-22 15:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-22 21:54 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2021-03-23 9:30 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2021-03-24 18:55 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2021-03-24 20:58 ` Ken Brown
2021-03-26 1:29 ` Hans-Bernhard Bröker
2021-03-15 10:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-03-15 19:52 ` Corinna Vinschen
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