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

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 12 17:09, Chiheng Xu wrote:
> 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. Â 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

This is old info.  Better trust the original source of information:

http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-files


Corinna

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