On 27/08/2020 06:48, Michael Wild via Cygwin wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 10:57 PM Jon Turney wrote:
However, even if that's fixed, there's no value for winsymlinks in
CYGWIN env var to specify the behaviour of Cygwin 3.1.4 and previous
(i.e. always create traditional symlinks, don't use WSL symlink reparse
points)
Thanks Jon for the elaboration. Isn't winsymlinks=lnk supposed to do this
per the documentation?
No.
I'm not sure what documentation you are looking at, but [1][2] seems
reasonably clear that the behaviour of Cygwin 3.1.4 and earlier (what I
referred to as "traditional cygwin symlinks") isn't the same as ".lnk
symlinks".
[1] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks
[2] https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html
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