Eric Blake wrote: > Symlinks merely contain whatever text they were created with. If the text > it was created with was Windows style, then readlink(2) will not translate > it. I suppose I could try to patch ln(1) to posix-ify any name that looks > like a Windows filename before actually calling symlink(2), but I'm not > sure it buys much. So for now, it's a feature, not a bug.
Yes, those symlinks in /etc are explicitly created with Win32 paths by the base-files postinstall script. I think the reasoning here is that if a POSIX path were used for the target of the symlink then it would have to be updated if the user ever changed the name of the /cygdrive prefix, whereas just using a Win32 path is always correct and insulates from that variable. Moreover, I think recent versions of the Cygwin DLL (i.e. 1.7/HEAD) do in fact normalize the target to be in POSIX form when reading the contents of the symlink file. I seem to recall a headsup from Corinna about this a while ago. This means no special accomodations are needed in 'ls'. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
