odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:33:47PM +0100, Sven K?hler wrote:
>>>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.

Apologies.  I took the word "altogether" to mean "completely" but
obviously missed the meaning implied by "from the windoze perspective".

cgf

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