Re: native symlinks and non-existent targets

2024-04-29 Thread Lee via Cygwin
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 4:11 PM Csaba Ráduly wrote: > > On 25/04/2024 15:15, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote: > > On 24/04/2024 23:36, Christopher Layne via Cygwin wrote: > > [...] > >> If it isn't true then this seems trivial to fix. > > > > This assertion is trivially disproven by the lack of a

Re: native symlinks and non-existent targets

2024-04-29 Thread Csaba Ráduly via Cygwin
On 25/04/2024 15:15, Jon Turney via Cygwin wrote: On 24/04/2024 23:36, Christopher Layne via Cygwin wrote: [...] If it isn't true then this seems trivial to fix. This assertion is trivially disproven by the lack of a patch attached. :) I don't think this is worth a gold star, but a jester's

Re: native symlinks and non-existent targets

2024-04-25 Thread Jon Turney via Cygwin
On 24/04/2024 23:36, Christopher Layne via Cygwin wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:11:52PM +, Christopher Layne via Cygwin wrote: Based on past threads I've read I believe the issue is actually with windows not allowing a symlink to be created with a non-existent target, but I do know

Re: native symlinks and non-existent targets

2024-04-24 Thread Christopher Layne via Cygwin
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:11:52PM +, Christopher Layne via Cygwin wrote: > Based on past threads I've read I believe the issue is actually with > windows not allowing a symlink to be created with a non-existent target, > but I do know windows does not care if you break a link after the fact.

native symlinks and non-existent targets

2024-04-24 Thread Christopher Layne via Cygwin
Since I recently sent an email about symlinks and cygdrive mounts, I figured I'd report another issue that's plagued me over the years and that I know others have reported in the past: You can't create native symlinks to non-existent targets and this causes a bunch of issues when rsyncing