Cygwin generates syscalls for *.lnk files on filesystems with native symlink support?
matthew patton
pattonme@yahoo.com
Mon Jan 8 19:57:34 GMT 2024
> This breaks many applications such as the java runtime among others.
In any event "unreadable files" is a problem all over the place if I use Cygwin's /usr/bin/ln to create links. That's why I was forced to write a wrapper. Even if 'JUNCTION' is false/misleading as to the root cause, plenty of 'DOS' programs, like the AWS CLI and Golang have major problems with the default behavior.
For a "compatibility" environment to spawn a slew of unusable filesystem artifacts is a MAJOR bug, IMO.
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