Re: Strange symlink behaviour

[Alfred von Campe]

Here is an update from my experiments (sorry for the delay).  As  
Corinna explained, symlinks created in Cygwin are only recognized by  
Cygwin, so what I wanted to do wasn't really possible.  However, we  
still wanted to be able to update the share from Windows (a GUI  
application was written for the operator to update the share when a  
new release is available), so I really wanted to figure out a way to  
make this work on Windows.  The solution was to use hard links in the  
tar file (which doesn't use up any more space), and when it was  
untar'ed on Windows, everything worked as expected.

Thanks for all the help,
Alfred

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