From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ln -s symlink question
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090906153854.GB21356@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a71bd89a0909060539x31f356a1j1eb5ae3f996052c4@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 05:39:04AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>Hi folks,
>I'm adding support for hidden and system attributes to Wine
>to support cygwin's symlinks. The following questions
>are not wine-related; I'm doing my testing on vista.
>
>If I look at /bin/vi with both dir in cmd and ls -l in cygwin, I see
>that it's a non-.lnk symlink, i.e. dir shows it as an 18 byte
>system file, and ls -l shows it as a symlink.
>
>But I can't seem to create that style of symlink with ln -s.
>If I do
> ln -s a b
>and then in cmd do
> dir b*
>I see a 333 byte non-system file named b.lnk.
>
>What's going on? How can I create the other style of symlink
>with ln -s?
Either use Cygwin 1.7 or use the appropriate CYGWIN environment
variable settings:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
i.e., CYGWIN=nowinsymlinks
cgf
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