Re: [Mingw-w64-public] How to recognize symlinks in WIN32?

2015-01-15 Thread Adrien Nader
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015, Greg Jung wrote: > Thanks all, let me summarize the situation: > >cygwin has its own trick to make a symlnk where the native OS doesn't > cooperate, which is a simple file beginning with the char[11]='!' > then 0xFF,0xFE, then wide-char name of where the link points. > In

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] How to recognize symlinks in WIN32?

2015-01-15 Thread Greg Jung
Thanks all, let me summarize the situation: cygwin has its own trick to make a symlnk where the native OS doesn't cooperate, which is a simple file beginning with the char[11]='!' then 0xFF,0xFE, then wide-char name of where the link points. In windows a symlink creator needs elevated privilege

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] How to recognize symlinks in WIN32?

2015-01-15 Thread David Macek
On 15. 1. 2015 4:11, Greg Jung wrote: > Yes I've seen that, if my second post appeared, the symlinks created with > cygwin are the ones giving me trouble. These links are invisible to CMD.exe, > by someone's > design: > > CYGWIN- created links in > Directory of e:\cygwin64\lib\nox > > 03/31/