Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:33:09 +0200 From: Teun Burgers Subject: Re: symlink() & is_v2_prog() question Sender: burgers AT ecn DOT nl To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Message-id: <37CBE7A5.CB3A17C4@ecn.nl> Organization: Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN X-Envelope-to: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: nl References: Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Is there a document somewhere that describes how symlinks are simulated > by Cygwin? (I'm afraid of some hidden features that the above short > description doesn't reveal.) Did not find a description yet, but the source is rather concise. Look for the strings symlink and SYMLINK_COOKIE See: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/cygwin-src-19990830.tar.gz/winsup/path.h http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/cygwin-src-19990830.tar.gz/winsup/path.cc Teun Burgers -- Drs A.R. Burgers Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN Phone: +31-224-564703 Solar & Wind Energy, PV Cells & Modules Fax : +31-224-563214 P.O. Box 1 email: burgers AT ecn DOT nl 1755 ZG Petten, The Netherlands