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Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Cygwin vs MSYS [WAS: Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?]
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:51:39 +0200
- Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Cygwin vs MSYS [WAS: Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?]
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On Aug 12 17:09, Chiheng Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 08/09/2010 07:19 PM, Chiheng Xu wrote:
> >> As far as I know, Cygwin now use Windows shortcut to implement
> >> symlink. This work well with native apps.
> >
> > Not true. ÂCygwin can read windows shortcuts as symlinks, but does not
> > generate windows shortcuts to hold new symlinks because windows
> > shortcuts are inherently limited in such a way that they cannot serve as
> > true POSIX symlinks.
> >
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link#Cygwin_symbolic_links
This is old info. Better trust the original source of information:
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-files
Corinna
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