Soft link created with 'ln -s' is not seen as a shortcut by WXP

[Rodrigo Medina]

Hi,
One nice feature of cygwin was that a link  to a folder  created by 'ln -s'
was seen as shortcut to the folder by WXP. Lately it does not function
like that.

 $ ls -aFl Escr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rmedina Usuarios 53 Dic  9  2009 Escr -> /cygdrive/c/Documents
and Settings/rmedina/Escritorio/

$ln -s /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/rmedina/Escritorio test
$ ls -aFl test
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rmedina Usuarios 53 Abr  5 10:27 test -> /cygdrive/c/Documents
and Settings/rmedina/Escritorio/

$ cd Escr
$ pwd
/home/rmedina/Escr
$pwd  -P
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/rmedina/Escritorio
$cd ../
$cd test
$pwd
/home/rmedina/test
$pwd  -P
/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/rmedina/Escritorio

Both links work fine for bash, but  the old one 'Escr' is seen as a
shortcut by WXP, while the new one 'test' is not recogniced as a shortcut
by the
W-explorer. It has a generic file icon and the properties indicate it is
system file.

I hope that this nice feature can be recovered.

bye

R. Medina
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