Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Jan 27 14:16, Jan Hlavacek wrote:
> I am not on the list, but I hope this will get through.  I came across
> this discussion while I was searching for an answer to similar problem. 

There are a couple of postings in the ML archives, all from this month,
which should explain the behaviour pretty well.  There's a patch in
current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon problem.  But as soon as
you change the icon, the shortcut is changed by Windows in a way which
invalidates it as symlink for Cygwin.  That's nothing we can change
without breaking other things.  If you want to use a shortcut in Cygwin
and in native Windows, create it in Cygwin and don't touch it.

> [FAQ]
> Since version 1.3.0, Cygwin treats shortcuts as symlinks. "

I'll change the text in the FAQ.


Corinna

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