Hi Andrey, Am 01.03.2020 um 02:52 schrieb Andrey Repin: >> I try to reliably determine if native Windows symlink are working for a >> current cygwin environment in a shell script. > >> Therefor I used a powershell snipped: > >> mkdir asdfgh >> ln -s asdfgh/ asdfgh-1 >> powershell "& {Get-Item -Path asdfgh-1 | Select-Object}" > >> On cygwin 3.0.7 the output is as follows: > > >> Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp > > >> Mode LastWriteTime Length Name >> ---- ------------- ------ ---- >> d----l 29.02.2020 13:58 asdfgh-1 > >> On cygwin 3.1.4 I get: > > >> Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp > > >> Mode LastWriteTime Length Name >> ---- ------------- ------ ---- >> d---- 29.02.2020 13:58 asdfgh-1 > >> So now there is no indication that this is a link. Is this new behaviour >> intended or a bug? > >> I did not try on Windows 10, I'm still on windows 7. > > I get the same behavior is not using Cygwin to create the link at all, this is > probably a change in how Cygwin interprets symlinks. I don't know what's going on here. The only difference is the cygwin version. So, the different behaviour is caused by cygwin while creating the link, for sure! Somebody any idea? Rainer