On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 08:50:46PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: >I have access to cpio sources that I would like to add support for >copying/creating Cygwin's symbolic links. At present, any files I >create would be as regular files. Any hints as how I would set this >attribute so I could create these symbolic links. Does setting _IFLNK >in the mode automatically perform setting SYSTEM attribute?
If Cygwin's cpio didn't create symbolic links then there would be something seriously wrong with it. As it turns out, it *does* work as expected so, if you're not seeing the correct behavior, then you're probably not running using the Cygwin version of cpio. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
