On Jan 25 11:44, linda w wrote: > Forgive me if this has been covered somewhere, but I was > wondering if a setting could be added in CYGWIN, to process > "windows links" [.lnk] files as "cygwin" links. Is this > possible?
No, it's not. > It sure would be handy to have the linux utils like find > and readlink to work on win-links and run cleanup jobs on > one's system to search for "stale" link. > > It is very useful to have cygwin links work in the 'win32 env, > it would be equally useful to have an option to have win32 links > work in cygwin [if it is doable and not too much bother...]. It is partly doable and the first implementation in Cygwin even did that. But it results in a problem. Windows shortcuts may contain a couple of extra information which just have nothing to do with the pure path information. If these shortcuts are treated like symlinks, it becomes impossible to make backups of Windows shortcuts using Cygwin tools like tar. Today, tar treats Windows shortcuts as normal files. If tar just can see the symlink part, the extracted shortcut wouldn't be very similar to what has been archived. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
