Re: Native symbolic links to non-existent targets (possible bug?)

2014-09-30 Thread Brian Ericson
Looking at the source, I may be able to address my own questions/points. On 09/29/2014 10:21 PM, Brian Ericson wrote: Cygwin appears to ignore "winsymlinks:native" when asked to create a symbolic link to a non-existent target, reverting to its "magic header" approach. This is true... Shouldn't

Native symbolic links to non-existent targets (possible bug?)

2014-09-29 Thread Brian Ericson
Cygwin appears to ignore "winsymlinks:native" when asked to create a symbolic link to a non-existent target, reverting to its "magic header" approach. This can be demonstrated via the following examples (using a Cygwin shell): echo hello > aaa ln -s aaa bbb notepad bbb ln -s xxx yyy