[Mingw-w64-public] Cygwin vs MSYS [WAS: Making config.guess detect mingw64 platform?]

Chiheng Xu chiheng.xu@gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 09:09:00 GMT 2010


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.  Cygwin 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



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Chiheng Xu
Wuhan,China

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