On Jul 15 15:56, Garber, Dave (GE Energy, Non-GE) wrote: > Using winsymlinks, it seems that if you create a symbolic link to a > non-existent file, the POSIX target gets set, but the Windows target > does not. The cygpath command will return a valid Windows path for the > non-existent file, so that should be used for the Windows target value.
Cygwin does that, but it doesn't help. The target filename part of a Windows symlink is created by calling the IShellFolder::ParseDisplayName function. This function fails with an error code 0x80070002 if the target file does not exist. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
