On Nov 19 19:53, David Macek wrote: > On 18. 11. 2015 20:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 18 19:13, David Macek wrote: > >> On 18. 11. 2015 18:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>> On Nov 17 23:28, David Macek wrote: > >>>> I went through the UG looking for differences between regular Cygwin > >>>> symlinks and NTFS symlinks, but couldn't find this documented. It > >>>> seems that when using winsymlinks:native, the target path is first > >>>> dereferenced before storing it in the link. > >>> > >>> It's a result of the native symlink being a Windows path. The > >>> ultimate conversion from POSIX to Windows path dereferences all > >>> symlinks. > > Hmm. I just performed a test on my Cygwin installation and it doesn't > seem to match the described behavior.
Symlinks within the path, e.g : /home/foo/symlink/bar/baz If the above symlink is not a native symlink, the above path converted to Windows notation C:\cygwin64\home\foo\symlink\bar\baz is invalid. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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