Re: Symlinks, executability, system attribute, etc (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT])

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:44 PM 2/22/2001, Mark Hadfield wrote:
>Another thought about symlinks, executability etc. IF a change like
>Corinna's proposal is adopted and IF some time in the future support for
>current-style symlinks is dropped (or can be turned off optionally) then
>Cygwin will know that all symlinks have the extension .lnk and it will no
>longer need to use the system attribute for that purpose. Could the Windows
>system attribute then be used to indicate executability,i.e. the rule would
>be that a file is executable if the extension is .exe etc OR the system
>attribute is set. Voila, no need to look inside files for #!

True but Cygwin would have to drop the existing symlink convention and 
either refuse to support it or provide a tool to convert any of the current
style to the new to make your proposal reasonable.  Its not impossible but
I'm guessing the confusion that would ensue will keep it from happening as
you suggest, at least for quite a while.


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