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Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist

From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 05:55:13 +0200
Subject: Re: `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict`, `ln -s target link` fails if target doesn't exist
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On 05/10/2016 05:00, Rinrin wrote:

Hi Gene:
  I made a patch for my private use.
  First of all, you should setup `nativenocheck` in CYGWIN environment
variable to enable this feature.
  If the target does not exist, it will check the last digit of target
path, for '/' it will create a <SYMLINKD> instead of <SYMLINK>


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