Hello everybody! First post on this mailing list, my name is Gene, I'm from Russia, long-time Linux user, but had to use Windows as desktop for the last 8 years. Cygwin really helps me to keep my sanity! Thanks :)
I have an issue to report: Introduction: On a UNIX system, `ln -s target link` creates a link regardless of target's existence. This is used in some scripts, e.g. Gentoo's `run-crons` (which I also use on Cygwin) uses a symlink pointing to the running process PID as lockfile. Issue: if `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict` env var is set, running `ln -s target link` completely fails (even though running `mklink link target` in `cmd.exe` succeeds, same as `ln -s` does on UNIX). If `CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native`, a non-native link is created. So, `nativestrict` might break some (admittedly unorthodox) scripts. With `native` these script work, but still a native link would be preferrable and it is possible to create, but a non-native link is created instead. Bottom line, I think the native symlink creation code should be checked and a possibility should be added to create links to non-existent targets, rather than the current behavior of failing. Thanks! --Gene -- 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
