Am 03.03.2020 um 16:49 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Mar  3 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Mar  3 15:19, Rainer Emrich wrote:
>>> Am 03.03.2020 um 14:39 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>>> Aha!  So powershell does not show the 'l'.
>>> The most important thing is the difference between cygwin 3.0.7 and
>>> cygwin 3.1.4. For cygwin 3.0.7 the link indicator is shown even in
>>> powershell on Windows 7 but not with cygwin-3.1.4. And believe me, the
>>> only difference is the cygwin version.
>>
>> I may believe you, but believe me that Cygwin has no influence on
>> what powershell shows.  See the output of cmd /c dir /a.  The file
>> is a native symlink.
> 
> ...and for kicks I just tried this on W7 under Cygwin 3.0.7.  The output
> is the same as I pasted in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-03/msg00043.html
> 
> No 'l' mode flag, no 6th column in the mode output:
> 
> Mode                LastWriteTime     Length Name
> ----                -------------     ------ ----
> -a---        03.03.2020     16:47          0 bar
> 
> 
For me it's different. That's realy strange.

Ok, so I can't rely on powershell here. Is there a recommended procedure
for what I try in a script?

Check if the current cygwin environment is able to create native symlinks.

Thanks

Rainer