Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic linkfunctionali ty

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:34:19PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> Ah, OK.  I guess I don't know how the "attribute of the links" are represented
> but if the symlinks are recreated, that should take care of the basic problem.
> So these "attributes" would still be platform specific, just like the current
> symlinks, right?

Larry,

you're thinking way too complicated currently. Imagine:

- Source system: Root on C:\cygwin
  - There's a symlink (shortcut) to /usr/include/foo
    - The POSIX path inside is /usr/include/foo
    - The DOS path inside is C:\cygwin\usr\include\foo
  - tar cvf will create a tarball containing only the information that
    there's a symlink to /usr/include/foo

- Target system: Root on D:\target
  - tar xvzf will create a new symlink containing
    - The POSIX path /usr/include/foo
    - The DOS path D:\target\usr\include\foo

Voila!

Corinna

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