From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Native symbolic link behavior is broken and makes backups using Cygwin command line tools impossible
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:58:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pn2k8tz1.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC+X2=L-sBmgi_OoFVjJtpPp6MszHGH8ycEiOo4V1NNbWDAP-A@mail.gmail.com> (Matt D. via Cygwin's message of "Mon, 4 Jan 2021 10:27:09 -0500")
Matt D. via Cygwin writes:
> The normal behavior for both Windows and Linux is to create the
> symbolic link whether the target exists or not.
That's not the case on Windows or rather it has restrictions that can
trip you up. On Windows you must specify if the symbolic link points to
a directory or a file in order to create a symbolic link to a
non-existing file. If that information is not available, it is
obviously safer to not create the symbolic link.
Regards,
Achim.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-03 4:16 Matt D.
2021-01-03 5:00 ` Brian Inglis
2021-01-04 10:36 ` Matt D.
2021-01-04 12:30 ` Eliot Moss
2021-01-04 15:27 ` Matt D.
2021-01-04 15:46 ` Jeffrey Altman
2021-01-12 17:59 ` Matt D.
2021-01-12 22:18 ` Andrey Repin
2021-01-14 0:09 ` Matt D.
2021-01-04 16:32 ` Eliot Moss
2021-01-04 17:58 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
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