Copying of symbolic links not working as expected

[Matt D.]

I'm experiencing a discrepancy between Linux cp and Cygwin cp when 
copying native symbolic links:

Test/
    FolderA/
       123/
       456/ -> 123/

On Linux I can:

 > cp -r FolderA/ FolderB/

 > ls -l FolderB/
total 0
drwxrwxr-x. 2 account group 45 Apr 21 05:47 123
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 account group  4 Apr 21 05:47 456 -> 123/

Entire folder copied with relative symblic link paths preserved.

*** (starting from the original state -- rm -rf FolderB/) ***

 > mkdir FolderB/
 > cp -r FolderA/456 FolderB/

 > ls -l FolderB/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 account group  4 Apr 21 05:47 456 -> 123/

Note that "456 -> 123/" in "FolderB/" is a BROKEN link. This is 
DESIRABLE as it preserves my curated symbolic links with their relative 
paths.

On Cygwin:

 > cp -r FolderA/ FolderB/

... Works as expected

But:

 > cp -r FolderA/456 FolderB/

ERRORS:

cp: cannot create symbolic link 'FolderB/456': No such file or directory

I know that there is no file or directory there. I'm trying to copy one 
to this location.

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