From: Gene Pavlovsky <gene.pavlovsky@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2016 10:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPTiy3O6Cq0SsJQzA4Nbj+WH2VU8f8JhhwH3AKD30mCeoc9Gow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <206e8a55-a830-fb27-76e1-dfe4c47ac51f@imbrian.org>
On 5 October 2016 at 06:00, Rinrin <rinrin@imbrian.org> 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 <SYMLINKD> instead of <SYMLINK>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-06 10:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-28 22:18 Gene Pavlovsky
2016-04-28 23:48 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-29 0:06 ` Eric Blake
2016-04-29 5:23 ` Andrey Repin
2016-04-29 0:09 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-04-29 1:46 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-04-29 12:03 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-04-29 12:15 ` Peter Rosin
2016-04-29 12:20 ` [cygwin] " Jason Pyeron
2016-04-30 12:35 ` Gene Pavlovsky
2016-10-05 3:56 ` Rinrin
2016-10-05 4:31 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-10-06 10:38 ` Gene Pavlovsky [this message]
2016-10-07 5:33 ` Rinrin
2016-10-09 19:16 ` Gene Pavlovsky
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