Corinna Vinschen wrote on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 5:17 AM: > Hmm. What kind of "softlink" are you talking about? Is that a > Windows shortcut created by Windows? Or is that a Cygwin symlink? > If the latter, did you create the symlink way back when, or did you > create the symlink under Cygwin 1.7? If the latter, the symlink > is probably not a Windows shortcut anymore, rather the other Cygwin > style of symlink which is a file with the SYSTEM DOS attribute set. > In this case it's no wonder Windows opens the file, rather than to > follow the shortcut to its target. I made the change because the > SYSTEM type shortcuts are faster. If you want to have the Windows > shortcut style symlinks back because you use them to interoperate > with native Windows tools, you have to set the CYGWIN=winsymlinks > option now.
This is a change from 1.5, right? The 1.5 user guide says "winsimlinks" is the default, and the 1.7 user guide says "nowinsimlinks" is. It seems like this change was missed in http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- 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/
