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Please don't resolve native symbolic links in cygwin_conv_path
- From: Daniel Colascione <dan dot colascione at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:39:39 -0800
- Subject: Please don't resolve native symbolic links in cygwin_conv_path
If a POSIX path supplied to cygwin_conv_path ends in a symbolic link,
the returned path refers to the target of that link. Normally, that's
a good thing because native programs can't understand Cygwin links.
But this behavior is unwanted when we're looking at a *native*
symbolic link that all programs can understand. It's needlessly
specific and rather surprising, and is causing trouble with a program
I'm writing that manipulates native symbolic links.
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