Re: Please don't resolve native symbolic links in cygwin_conv_path

2011-01-09 Thread Reini Urban
2011/1/7 Daniel Colascione: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 01/06/2011 06:39 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: >>> If a POSIX path supplied to cygwin_conv_path ends in a symbolic link, >>> the returned path refers to the target of that link. Normally, that's >>> a good thing b

Re: Please don't resolve native symbolic links in cygwin_conv_path

2011-01-07 Thread Daniel Colascione
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 01/06/2011 06:39 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: >> If a POSIX path supplied to cygwin_conv_path ends in a symbolic link, >> the returned path refers to the target of that link. Normally, that's >> a good thing because native programs can't under

Re: Please don't resolve native symbolic links in cygwin_conv_path

2011-01-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 01/06/2011 06:39 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: > If a POSIX path supplied to cygwin_conv_path ends in a symbolic link, > the returned path refers to the target of that link. Normally, that's > a good thing because native programs can't understand Cygwin links. > But this behavior is unwanted when

Please don't resolve native symbolic links in cygwin_conv_path

2011-01-06 Thread Daniel Colascione
If a POSIX path supplied to cygwin_conv_path ends in a symbolic link, the returned path refers to the target of that link. Normally, that's a good thing because native programs can't understand Cygwin links. But this behavior is unwanted when we're looking at a *native* symbolic link that all progr