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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
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- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
- From: David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:42:50 -0500
Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux@microprocess.com> writes:
> Thanks for the fact that now we can follow these using Win native tools,
at
> least to the extent we do not move things around under windows and
rearrange
> mount points for cygwin ;-|
Right, but I think the priorities are right in this approach in that the
Cygwin tools are always fine, and it's just the "foreign" Windows tools that
are at a disadvantage.
> However I don't see any way out of this unfortunately, as in this case the
> DOS and CYGWIN paths get out of sync: we've probably created a new area of
> problems and complains (by newbies or oldies)...
You may be right, but I think it's worth the risk.
One of the things stopping me from using symbolic links in more than
my own development environment is precisely that I've got to work in a
mixed environment (I still use textmode on most of my mounts for the
same reason). I've got a file distribution tree that I'd love to use
symbolic links on but there are native tools that also have to see
them when validating the tree prior to distribution.
Now I didn't consider this to be Cygwin's fault nor responsibility to
fix, but this change sounds like it's just the ticket!
-- David
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