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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

  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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