On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:20 PM Andrey Repin <anrdae...@yandex.ru> wrote: > > Again, the properties are read BY SYSTEM at the moment the link is created. > In other words, Windows is unable to create a link to nonexistent > (unreachable) target (not directly, at least).
This is false. Links can be created arbitrarily both at the Windows command line using MKLINK and programmatically with the CreateSymbolicLink function. The information about what type of link to make during a copy operation can be read from the link being copied. The target does not have to exist for a link to be created. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
