native symlink support should fallback to default format if target missing
James Gregurich
bayoubengal@mac.com
Tue May 14 21:04:00 GMT 2013
>>
>>
>> 4. if a cygwin symlink is accessed and the target exists and the
>> file system supports symlink reparse points, replace the cygwin
>> symlink with the symlink reparse point.
>
> No, that won't happen. When reading a symlink it will be used, not
> overwritten with another one under some weird circumstances.
> Consider:
>
> $ export CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native
> $ ln -s foo bar
> $ [... doing some other unrelated stuff, forgetting to unset CYGWIN...]
> $ find . -name baz
>
> This will accidentally read all symlinks under CWD and convert them to
> native symlinks. Nope, not good.
You don't need to do that. Just leave it as a native default form symlink. One can use a command line tool to test the symlink and retry the creation of the native symlink at a later time. That works in practical use.
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