Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:01:56 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Jan Hlavacek Subject: Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP Message-ID: <20050128090156.GB25553@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Jan Hlavacek References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jan 27 14:16, Jan Hlavacek wrote: > I am not on the list, but I hope this will get through. I came across > this discussion while I was searching for an answer to similar problem. There are a couple of postings in the ML archives, all from this month, which should explain the behaviour pretty well. There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon problem. But as soon as you change the icon, the shortcut is changed by Windows in a way which invalidates it as symlink for Cygwin. That's nothing we can change without breaking other things. If you want to use a shortcut in Cygwin and in native Windows, create it in Cygwin and don't touch it. > [FAQ] > Since version 1.3.0, Cygwin treats shortcuts as symlinks. " I'll change the text in the FAQ. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/