Am 03.03.2020 um 16:49 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > On Mar 3 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Mar 3 15:19, Rainer Emrich wrote: >>> Am 03.03.2020 um 14:39 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: >>>> Aha! So powershell does not show the 'l'. >>> The most important thing is the difference between cygwin 3.0.7 and >>> cygwin 3.1.4. For cygwin 3.0.7 the link indicator is shown even in >>> powershell on Windows 7 but not with cygwin-3.1.4. And believe me, the >>> only difference is the cygwin version. >> >> I may believe you, but believe me that Cygwin has no influence on >> what powershell shows. See the output of cmd /c dir /a. The file >> is a native symlink. > > ...and for kicks I just tried this on W7 under Cygwin 3.0.7. The output > is the same as I pasted in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-03/msg00043.html > > No 'l' mode flag, no 6th column in the mode output: > > Mode LastWriteTime Length Name > ---- ------------- ------ ---- > -a--- 03.03.2020 16:47 0 bar > > For me it's different. That's realy strange.
Ok, so I can't rely on powershell here. Is there a recommended procedure for what I try in a script? Check if the current cygwin environment is able to create native symlinks. Thanks Rainer
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