* WSL filesystem link compatibility?
@ 2023-12-18 6:44 Dan Shelton
2023-12-18 16:35 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Dan Shelton @ 2023-12-18 6:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hello!
Where is the difference between native filesystem links, and WSL
filesystem links, in Cygwin?
Dan
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* Re: WSL filesystem link compatibility?
2023-12-18 6:44 WSL filesystem link compatibility? Dan Shelton
@ 2023-12-18 16:35 ` Brian Inglis
2023-12-18 17:21 ` Matthew Patton
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From: Brian Inglis @ 2023-12-18 16:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 2023-12-17 23:44, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> Where is the difference between native filesystem links, and WSL
> filesystem links, in Cygwin?
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html#setup-locale-problems
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* Re: WSL filesystem link compatibility?
2023-12-18 16:35 ` Brian Inglis
@ 2023-12-18 17:21 ` Matthew Patton
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From: Matthew Patton @ 2023-12-18 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin, Brian Inglis via Cygwin; +Cc: Brian Inglis
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That said, cygwin now uses junctions which is annoying and not all that compatible with all aspects of the windows ecosystem. So I wrote a wrapper script that replaced ln with calls to mklink. Much better.
https://github.com/tb3088/shell-environment/blob/master/.functions_os.CYGWIN_NT#L9
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