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Re: 1.7 (an previous) ln bug
On Jul 15 15:56, Garber, Dave (GE Energy, Non-GE) wrote:
> Using winsymlinks, it seems that if you create a symbolic link to a
> non-existent file, the POSIX target gets set, but the Windows target
> does not. The cygpath command will return a valid Windows path for the
> non-existent file, so that should be used for the Windows target value.
Cygwin does that, but it doesn't help. The target filename part of a
Windows symlink is created by calling the IShellFolder::ParseDisplayName
function. This function fails with an error code 0x80070002 if the
target file does not exist.
Corinna
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