Greetings, Eric Blake! > On 04/28/2016 05:06 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> Bottom line, I think the native symlink creation code should be >>> checked and a possibility should be added to create links to >>> non-existent targets, rather than the current behavior of failing. >> >> This is actually an arguable behavior, even in Linux. I can imagine the >> behavior is "undefined" in such a case.
> POSIX says a symlink to a missing target is perfectly well-defined (you > can't stat() through it, but you can readlink() it). But Windows native > symlinks can't do that. So the problems you are encountering all stem > from the fact that you are trying to make Windows do something it can't. My initial reaction was that, too, but I tried mklink (CMD internal command) mklink x y and it created the symlink in the empty directory just fine. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, April 29, 2016 07:40:02 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple