From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ssmtp-config fails on step 6
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 11:28:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZtwvtyAXVIT6KET@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9f7af734-10b5-5f30-8038-8eb392d47c26@cornell.edu>
On Nov 20 17:26, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> On 11/19/2021 7:07 PM, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote:
> > alternatives is known to make links to nonexistent objects. While this is
> > possible on *NIX, you can only link to existing objects on Windows.
>
> You're talking about native Windows symlinks, not Cygwin symlinks. The
> latter can point to nonexistent objects just as on *NIX.
In fact, Windows symlinks can easily be created as dangling symlinks
as well. Try cmd's `mklink foo bar' with non-existent bar in developer
mode or an elevated shell.
Corinna
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-19 17:59 Kevin Andrew Lipscomb
2021-11-19 23:54 ` Doug Henderson
2021-11-20 17:04 ` Kevin Andrew Lipscomb
2021-11-20 0:07 ` Andrey Repin
2021-11-20 1:10 ` Doug Henderson
2021-11-20 22:26 ` Ken Brown
2021-11-22 10:28 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2021-11-22 18:04 ` Achim Gratz
2021-11-22 18:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
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