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Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox


On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:24:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:15:33AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >Why?  I just tried it on Linux, and could not create a symlink to an empty
> >path.  If we added some logic to link processing code in Cygwin to revert
> >to the Win32 path if the POSIX path is empty, I don't see any reason why
> >this woulnd't work...  It won't even be a slowdown for normal symlinks,
> >since we'd only do this bit of logic if we failed to open the POSIX path.
> 
> I really like this idea.  Corinna?  The symlink stuff is your code.  What
> do you think?

Basically it's a good idea.   Since we're talking about /cygdrive paths
only, we can be sure the path is absolute so no objections against
falling back to the Windows path component of the shortcut.  The older
code in the (now deprecated) file shortcut.c already read the Windows
path from the shortcut but then it haven't been used later on.  But how
would we solve that with the old symlink style?  Giving the path as
Windows path in the file?

> (Of course, you can *always* use the mount table for all of this.  I wonder
> if we should just be using the mount table here.)

I don't understand how the mount table comes into play here.  Could you
describe what you have in mind?

Personally I don't like having a big mount table for all sorts of weird
stuff.  I'd like to keep it clean and small.

Corinna

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