Change in logical link behaviour

[Rainer Emrich]

Dear Corinna,

Am 02.03.2020 um 17:48 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> On Feb 29 14:10, Rainer Emrich wrote:
>> I try to reliably determine if native Windows symlink are working for a
>> current cygwin environment in a shell script.
>>
>> Therefor I used a powershell snipped:
>>
>> mkdir asdfgh
>> ln -s asdfgh/ asdfgh-1
>> powershell "& {Get-Item -Path asdfgh-1 | Select-Object}"
>>
>> On cygwin 3.0.7 the output is as follows:
>>
>>
>>     Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp
>>
>>
>> Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
>> ----                -------------         ------ ----
>> d----l       29.02.2020     13:58                asdfgh-1
>>
>> On cygwin 3.1.4 I get:
>>
>>
>>     Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp
>>
>>
>> Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
>> ----                -------------         ------ ----
>> d----        29.02.2020     13:58                asdfgh-1
>>
>> So now there is no indication that this is a link. Is this new behaviour
>> intended or a bug?
>>
>> I did not try on Windows 10, I'm still on windows 7.
>>
>> Rainer
>>
> 
> I can't reproduce this behaviour.  Keep in mind that, by default, you
> *have to* run in an elevated shell to be able to create native NTFS
> symlinks, *and* you *have to* set the environment variable CYGWIN(*) to
> contain "winsymlinks:native" or "winsymlinks:nativestrict".  The latter
> is nice for testing, it refuses to fall back silently to the default
> Cygwin-only symlinks but fails instead if it can't create a native
> NTFS symlink.
I know all the implications. I have to test in an unknown cygwin
environment if it is possible to set native symlinks.

> 
> So, on Windows 7 in an elevated shell:
> 
>   # id -G | grep -Eq '\<544\>' && echo elevated || echo non-elevated
>   elevated
>   # uname -a
>   CYGWIN_NT-6.1 vmbert764 3.1.4(0.340/5/3) 2020-02-19 08:49 x86_64 Cygwin
>   # mkdir qwe
>   # cd qwe
>   # export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:nativestrict"
>   # touch foo
>   # ln -s foo bar
>   # cmd /c dir /a
>    Volume in drive C has no label.
>    Volume Serial Number is A8E0-A24E
> 
>    Directory of C:\cygwin64\home\corinna\qwe
> 
>   2020-03-02  17:31    <DIR>          .
>   2020-03-02  17:31    <DIR>          ..
>   2020-03-02  17:31    <SYMLINK>      bar [foo]
>   2020-03-02  17:31                 0 foo
>                  2 File(s)              0 bytes
> 		 2 Dir(s)   7.907.352.576 bytes free
> 
Yes, this is the same for me, but if you use the powershell

# powershell "& {Get-Item -Path bar | Select-Object}"

on cygwin 3.0.7 you get



    Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a---l       03.03.2020     14:09              0 bar


and on cygwin 3.1.4 you get



    Directory: D:\cygwin\home\rainer\temp


Mode                LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                -------------         ------ ----
-a---        03.03.2020     14:09              0 bar


The only difference is the used cygwin version. So, I don't understand
what has changed.

Cheers

Rainer

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