odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2
Sven Köhler
skoehler@upb.de
Mon Jan 17 22:08:00 GMT 2005
>>I suspect it's important in the longer term to track this down because they
>>(MSFT) ~could~ make further changes down the road that break cygwin-created
>>symlinks altogether (from the windoze perspective), which'd more than just
>>"annoying".
>
> No, Microsoft is not going to break things so that cygwin's symlinks no
> longer operate. Cygwin understands its own version of symlinks very well.
This comment is ridiculous. He clearly complained about MS-Software that
cannot handle cygwin-created links, and you're talking about cygwin
understand its own symlinks - well, think about it again.
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