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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality


On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:51:42AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> When you create a symlink/shortcut in Cygwin which in turn points to a
> shortcut it will remain this way. Explorer tries to resolve the path
> again but it will not show any target path for some reason. There's
> still a difference in the shortcuts created by Cygwin in contrast to
> shortcuts created by U/WIN. I will try to figure out what it is.

Just found the reason. I have checked in two patches already.
One to repeal that difference to U/WIN, another to solve a problem
when trying to open a file via a symlink.

Corinna

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