Re: native symlinks and non-existent targets

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:11:52PM +, Christopher Layne via Cygwin wrote: > Based on past threads I've read I believe the issue is actually with > windows not allowing a symlink to be created with a non-existent target, > but I do know windows does not care if you break a link after the fact.

native symlinks and non-existent targets

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