On Nov 20 17:26, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: > On 11/19/2021 7:07 PM, Andrey Repin via Cygwin wrote: > > alternatives is known to make links to nonexistent objects. While this is > > possible on *NIX, you can only link to existing objects on Windows. > > You're talking about native Windows symlinks, not Cygwin symlinks. The > latter can point to nonexistent objects just as on *NIX.
In fact, Windows symlinks can easily be created as dangling symlinks as well. Try cmd's `mklink foo bar' with non-existent bar in developer mode or an elevated shell. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
