From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125489 invoked by alias); 2 Nov 2015 18:57:58 -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 125473 invoked by uid 89); 2 Nov 2015 18:57:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-yk0-f180.google.com Received: from mail-yk0-f180.google.com (HELO mail-yk0-f180.google.com) (209.85.160.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:57:56 +0000 Received: by ykft191 with SMTP id t191so148804946ykf.0 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:57:54 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.129.102.9 with SMTP id a9mr19428836ywc.104.1446490674516; Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.64.141 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Nov 2015 10:57:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 18:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Using cp converts windows junctions to a cywin symlink From: Adrian H To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 I was copying a directory of files, some of which were windows junctions. These got converted to a cygwin symlink. Although I am impressed that there are such a thing for those OSs/drives that do not support such things, for those that do, I think it would be good to keep the copy a junction. Otherwise, things can get messy. Can this be corrected? Thanks, A -- 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