On Nov 22 19:04, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin writes:
> > 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.
> 
> However you need to tell it if that name points to a directory or a
> file, it cannot change afterwards on the fly.

Yes, but only Explorer actually cares.  Nevertheless, it's one of the
most annoying Windows "features" since Vista.


Corinna

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