On Aug 9, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >>> As i understand Cygwin will soon no longer support Windows XP resp. >>> 2003. This means that only Windows versions with native symbolic link >>> functionality will be supported after that. Would it be possible to use >>> only native symbolic links throughout esp. during setup.exe? > >> Short answer: No. > >> Long answer: > >> There are limitations to NTFS symlinks, other than OS support, that make >> them incompatible with POSIX symlinks. See >> <https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks> and >> <https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Symbolic-Links> for more >> information. > > There's limitations, yes. But what do you mean by "incompatibility” ?
I’d say “breaking every shell script that calls ln(1) just because it isn’t running as Administrator” would be an incompatible change, for one. -- 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
