Re: native symlinks and non-existent targets

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:11:52PM +, Christopher Layne via Cygwin wrote: > Based on past threads I've read I believe the issue is actually with > windows not allowing a symlink to be created with a non-existent target, > but I do know windows does not care if you break a link

native symlinks and non-existent targets

Since I recently sent an email about symlinks and cygdrive mounts, I figured I'd report another issue that's plagued me over the years and that I know others have reported in the past: You can't create native symlinks to non-existent targets and this causes a bunch of issues when rsyncing directori

Issue with cygdrive mount, native symlinks, and noacl option

I noticed recently while attempting to rsync directories from one drive to another that I was getting the familiar "NULL SID", "incorrectly ordered", etc. type ownership issues on the destination even though I use noacl for cygdrive mounts (I'm aware of the POSIX vs windows ACL issues, etc. henc