Greetings, JonY! >> The pop-up is produced even before login, presumably during the load of >> "bash --login -i" (but i also have /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, so this may also >> be the reason). >> >> I don't understand why a symlink is created during login, but in any case, >> one can observe that CreateSymbolicLinkW was introduced in path.cc >> during http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2013-q2/msg00046.html, that occurred >> immediately before the snapshot. >>
> A symlink is not necessarily created, the PE symbols are resolved at > start up and it is missing in your system. There is little you can do > about it. > Yes, it was a recent change, Corinna will have to fix that if XP is to > be supported. Far Manager don't have this issue, even though it support whole range of links for all Windows flavors. Said that, it IS possible to create a symbolic link to a file in Windows XP, even though you can't access it afterward. @Denis, do you have your XP box fully updated? -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 30.04.2013, <17:14> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
