From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke@tibco.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 20:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb0c5m$o4r$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0608041648270.17434@access1.cims.nyu.edu>
Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Adam Wolbach wrote:
>
>>> http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format
>>>
>>> The first match
>>>
>>> http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf
>>>
>>> is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the
>>> shortcut stuff.
>> Thanks, this gets me more than halfway to what I need to know -- the
>> missing piece is how these fields need to be filled out to appear as a
>> symbolic link to cygwin. Worst case I can just hunt through the cygwin
>> source, but if you happen to know or have notes lying around somewhere,
>> it might be useful to more than just us to post them somewhere. Thanks
>> again.
>
> Your best source of information is probably symlink_worker() in
> <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc?content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src&only_with_tag=HEAD>.
> HTH,
> Igor
Ah, yes, the RTFSC I saw coming a mile away. ;-)
...but it's a very helpful pointer to a specific place (and being a link
makes it easy to read; no mucking with downloading files or whatnot). I
hope Adam will appreciate your thoughtfulness. :-)
--
Matthew
Only Joe suffers from schizophrenia. The rest of us enjoy it.
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