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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Simon Liesenfeld <surgeonde@yahoo.de>
Subject: Re: symbolic links on Paragon Linux File systems
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 19:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181217192223.GC28727@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <768216656.5669803.1545072652503@mail.yahoo.com>

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Please, do not top-post.


On Dec 17 18:50, Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin wrote:
>  Hi Corinna,
> since you answered your own questionsI can better understand my own
> stupidity.I have created now a hard and a soft link with a native
> linux,then I booted Windows, started the paragon driver,then cygwin 
> programs as well as any dos program perfectly understood the links.

Not in my testing.  I installed the Paragon trial driver and tested
on a filesystem with files and symlinks created by native Linux.  The
symlinks are not understood at all.  From the Windows perspective they
are just plain files with the name of the target file as content.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-17 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1823593702.5343751.1545034298027.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-12-17  8:11 ` Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin
2018-12-17  9:34   ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-12-17  9:41     ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-12-17 18:45     ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-12-17 18:47       ` Stefan Baur
2018-12-17 18:50         ` Stefan Baur
2018-12-17 19:22       ` Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin
2018-12-17 19:38         ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2018-12-17 20:50           ` Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin
2018-12-17 11:35   ` Andrey Repin
2018-12-17 12:04     ` Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin
2018-12-17 12:17       ` Corinna Vinschen
     [not found]       ` <1283756633.5566453.1545061591859@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-12-17 16:35         ` Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin
2018-12-17 16:57           ` Simon Liesenfeld via cygwin

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