Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 17 02:48, Barry Kelly wrote: > >
> Also, if you don't treat juntions to the same drive as symlinks you have > the problem that you can easily create loops when you run a recursive > file search. This is true; though 'find' will detect such loops, and e.g. cmd /c dir /s will terminate after 30 recursions, and the Explorer shell is similarly stupid about such loops. What I'm getting at is the ecosystem is so unprepared for junctions that treating them as symlinks makes them feel too... flimsy, fragile. You already need to be careful about creating circular links for issues of compatibility elsewhere. For my usage purposes, though, I want e.g. find as used by locate to follow them (because the canonical path, for my purposes, includes the junction), but not "mere" symlinks. > > So I wrote this modification to cygwin-1.7.7-1 > > Please read http://cygwin.com/contrib.html, especially the chapter > "Before you get started". For a patch like this we need a signed > copyright assignment. However... Indeed; I was actually addressing Pierce more directly, I'm not particularly bothered whether or not such a change makes it into Cygwin itself. I fixed my problem; if it fixes Pierce's problem, that's bonus. -- Barry -- http://blog.barrkel.com/ -- 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
