Symlink targets dereferenced when winsymlinks:native

David Macek david.macek.0@gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 22:28:00 GMT 2015


Hi.

I went through the UG looking for differences between regular Cygwin symlinks and NTFS symlinks, but couldn't find this documented. It seems that when using winsymlinks:native, the target path is first dereferenced before storing it in the link. That doesn't happed when using regular symlink files. Is this behaviour intentional / known?

If it matters, the use case is `ln -sf /proc/self/fd /dev/fd`.

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David Macek

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