Greetings, Rainer Emrich!
> I try to reliably determine if native Windows symlink are working for a
> current cygwin environment in a shell script.
> Therefor I used a powershell snipped:
> mkdir asdfgh
> ln -s asdfgh/ asdfgh-1
> powershell "& {Get-Item -Path asdfgh-1 | Select-Object}"
> On cygwin 3.0.7 the output is as follows:
> Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp
> Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
> ---- ------------- ------ ----
> d----l 29.02.2020 13:58 asdfgh-1
> On cygwin 3.1.4 I get:
> Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp
> Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
> ---- ------------- ------ ----
> d---- 29.02.2020 13:58 asdfgh-1
> So now there is no indication that this is a link. Is this new behaviour
> intended or a bug?
> I did not try on Windows 10, I'm still on windows 7.
I get the same behavior is not using Cygwin to create the link at all, this is
probably a change in how Cygwin interprets symlinks.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, March 1, 2020 4:51:46
Sorry for my terrible english...
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