From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23156 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2010 09:51:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 23145 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Aug 2010 09:51:46 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:51:41 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 869346D4364; Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:51:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:51:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Cygwin vs MSYS [WAS: Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?] Message-ID: <20100812095139.GV14202@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C51D47F.1010601@users.sourceforge.net> <4C51DD43.3010308@users.sourceforge.net> <4C603A09.7060804@users.sourceforge.net> <4C60B1FB.20700@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 On Aug 12 17:09, Chiheng Xu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > On 08/09/2010 07:19 PM, Chiheng Xu wrote: > >> As far as I know, Cygwin now use Windows shortcut to implement > >> symlink. This work well with native apps. > > > > Not true.  Cygwin can read windows shortcuts as symlinks, but does not > > generate windows shortcuts to hold new symlinks because windows > > shortcuts are inherently limited in such a way that they cannot serve as > > true POSIX symlinks. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link#Cygwin_symbolic_links This is old info. Better trust the original source of information: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-files Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple