On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 05:39:04AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: >Hi folks, >I'm adding support for hidden and system attributes to Wine >to support cygwin's symlinks. The following questions >are not wine-related; I'm doing my testing on vista. > >If I look at /bin/vi with both dir in cmd and ls -l in cygwin, I see >that it's a non-.lnk symlink, i.e. dir shows it as an 18 byte >system file, and ls -l shows it as a symlink. > >But I can't seem to create that style of symlink with ln -s. >If I do > ln -s a b >and then in cmd do > dir b* >I see a 333 byte non-system file named b.lnk. > >What's going on? How can I create the other style of symlink >with ln -s?
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