`CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Wed Oct 5 04:31:00 GMT 2016


On 05/10/2016 05:00, Rinrin wrote:
> Hi Gene:
>   I made a patch for my private use.
>   First of all, you should setup `nativenocheck` in CYGWIN environment
> variable to enable this feature.
>   If the target does not exist, it will check the last digit of target
> path, for '/' it will create a <SYMLINKD> instead of <SYMLINK>
>
>

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