From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 68008 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2016 19:06:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 67987 invoked by uid 89); 9 Oct 2016 19:05:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Gene, gene, Hx-languages-length:1520, hey X-HELO: mail-io0-f170.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f170.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f170.google.com) (209.85.223.170) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:05:49 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f170.google.com with SMTP id r30so92269772ioi.1 for ; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 12:05:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=F0KkqrwDPrzpYSN7QDl6yar5bPWAzyCZEqE40B2VkBg=; b=eRIy6dUZcTR0qS/ntA00iOBubZl0mp38fRceiyoHEEioxhDOSZYoLBNgJ/htgVdPcH RUWfNypPOAXDNTftV0H8gk1s11tA+W+3vmly4eKIbBi8GfoNtV+6Xuk4wWRX0YZ7aAYA nTm5VxuEHdSfIyosdDV4jcT81GHUbjjA1riK7Pa+0F5PsBU8zVjEHssnWwlk/YK4XpwJ NNWK3zWQqVXEuxmdUjZ49e0j0n5a2Z12k+jIjZY9XFBTzOgr2FR067KfiYjIkQWFKi8V aGIaYExIWdhFO3RCrecIBgf731UKX9WgvD3vHUBCPt0cnWC0XVAwey1Gi6ziH6iqenHG A5yQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9Rn4/0yuV4FJrHybi00BXKaeRcodgAoinkuV79hrEHs2JOkUMDCa6kgd2G3TI7rtbQn9ZkiVntz1dI7tuA== X-Received: by 10.107.12.139 with SMTP id 11mr19652701iom.67.1476039948030; Sun, 09 Oct 2016 12:05:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.6.195 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Oct 2016 12:05:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1606116423.20160429020650@yandex.ru> <5580e7fc-e227-d9d8-a186-b58c8b17cfa3@lysator.liu.se> <206e8a55-a830-fb27-76e1-dfe4c47ac51f@imbrian.org> From: Gene Pavlovsky Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2016 19:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-10/txt/msg00112.txt.bz2 Hey, sounds cool. Did you submit your patch to Cygwin devs? Are there plans for accepting it? On 7 October 2016 at 05:06, Rinrin wrote: > =E5=9C=A8 2016/10/6 18:14, Gene Pavlovsky =E5=86=99=E9=81=93: >> On 5 October 2016 at 06:00, Rinrin wrote: >>> Hi Gene: >>> I made a patch for my private use. >>> First of all, you should setup `nativenocheck` in CYGWIN environment >>> variable to enable this feature. >>> If the target does not exist, it will check the last digit of target >>> path, for '/' it will create a instead of >> >> Hi Rinrin. >> I'd like to try it out, is your patch included in mainline Cygwin? >> If not, how can I get a version with that patch? >> Thanks. >> --Gene > I posted compiled version here. > http://www.megafileupload.com/kgm0/cygwin1.zip > > This version contains another patch ripped from msys. > When cygwin process call non-cygwin executable, like mingw binary, > it will translate cygwin path format to windows format. > > For example: > /mingw64/usr/bin $ iconv --help > Usage: C:\Portable\PrivData\cygwin\mingw64\usr\bin\iconv.exe [OPTION...] > [-f ENCODING] [-t ENCODING] [INPUTFILE...] > or: C:\Portable\PrivData\cygwin\mingw64\usr\bin\iconv.exe -l > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple