From: Chiheng Xu <chiheng.xu@gmail.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Cygwin vs MSYS [WAS: Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?]
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=v9K+Gmedj3f7vVg4RgirisnWvuHMMWwHD5Hsf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C60B1FB.20700@redhat.com>
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/09/2010 07:19 PM, Chiheng Xu wrote:
>> As far as I know, Cygwin now use Windows shortcut to implement
>> symlink. This work well with native apps.
>
> Not true. Cygwin can read windows shortcuts as symlinks, but does not
> generate windows shortcuts to hold new symlinks because windows
> shortcuts are inherently limited in such a way that they cannot serve as
> true POSIX symlinks.
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link#Cygwin_symbolic_links
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2010-08-10 1:19 ` Chiheng Xu
2010-08-10 1:58 ` Eric Blake
2010-08-12 9:09 ` Chiheng Xu [this message]
2010-08-12 9:51 ` Corinna Vinschen
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