Re: Symlink targets dereferenced when winsymlinks:native

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

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On Nov 19 19:53, David Macek wrote:
> On 18. 11. 2015 20:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Nov 18 19:13, David Macek wrote:
> >> On 18. 11. 2015 18:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> On Nov 17 23:28, David Macek wrote:
> >>>> I went through the UG looking for differences between regular Cygwin
> >>>> symlinks and NTFS symlinks, but couldn't find this documented. It
> >>>> seems that when using winsymlinks:native, the target path is first
> >>>> dereferenced before storing it in the link.
> >>>
> >>> It's a result of the native symlink being a Windows path.  The
> >>> ultimate conversion from POSIX to Windows path dereferences all
> >>> symlinks.
> 
> Hmm. I just performed a test on my Cygwin installation and it doesn't
> seem to match the described behavior.

Symlinks within the path, e.g : /home/foo/symlink/bar/baz

If the above symlink is not a native symlink, the above path
converted to Windows notation

  C:\cygwin64\home\foo\symlink\bar\baz

is invalid.


Corinna

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