Re: Support planned for vista symbolic links?

2007-01-31 Thread Shankar Unni
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [..] The next major Cygwin release will be able to read native NTFS symlinks and treats them as symlinks. However, it's not planned to utilize native NTFS symlinks when creating symlinks in Cygwin. Actually, that sounds perfect. The main thing is to recognize them as

Re: Support planned for vista symbolic links?

2007-01-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 28 13:38, Shankar Unni wrote: > This article from Mark "Sysinternals" Russinovitch discusses the new > "real" symbolic link feature in Vista ("real" in that it's classic > Unix-style, where the symlink is interpreted on the local OS, even for > links in mounted shares, and can refer to ei

Re: Support planned for vista symbolic links?

2007-01-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Shankar Unni on 1/28/2007 2:38 PM: > > Anyway: is any support planned in cygwin and/or coreutils for this > feature? (specifically, supporting symlink(), S_ISLNK support in stat, > etc.) coreutils will do nothing special. Either cygwin

Support planned for vista symbolic links?

2007-01-28 Thread Shankar Unni
This article from Mark "Sysinternals" Russinovitch discusses the new "real" symbolic link feature in Vista ("real" in that it's classic Unix-style, where the symlink is interpreted on the local OS, even for links in mounted shares, and can refer to either a file or a directory): http://www.mic