Hey, sounds cool.
Did you submit your patch to Cygwin devs? Are there plans for accepting it?
On 7 October 2016 at 05:06, Rinrin wrote:
> 在 2016/10/6 18:14, Gene Pavlovsky 写道:
>> On 5 October 2016 at 06:00, Rinrin wrote:
>>> Hi Gene:
>>> I made a patch for my private use.
>>> First of all,
在 2016/10/6 18:14, Gene Pavlovsky 写道:
> On 5 October 2016 at 06:00, Rinrin wrote:
>> Hi Gene:
>> I made a patch for my private use.
>> First of all, you should setup `nativenocheck` in CYGWIN environment
>> variable to enable this feature.
>> If the target does not exist, it will check the l
On 5 October 2016 at 06:00, Rinrin wrote:
> Hi Gene:
> I made a patch for my private use.
> First of all, you should setup `nativenocheck` in CYGWIN environment
> variable to enable this feature.
> If the target does not exist, it will check the last digit of target
> path, for '/' it will c
On 05/10/2016 05:00, Rinrin wrote:
Hi Gene:
I made a patch for my private use.
First of all, you should setup `nativenocheck` in CYGWIN environment
variable to enable this feature.
If the target does not exist, it will check the last digit of target
path, for '/' it will create a instead o
Hi Gene:
I made a patch for my private use.
First of all, you should setup `nativenocheck` in CYGWIN environment
variable to enable this feature.
If the target does not exist, it will check the last digit of target
path, for '/' it will create a instead of
在 2016/4/30 8:14, Gene Pavlovsk
I can confirm this behavior. Basically, mklink requires to choose file
(default) or directory (/D) link. It is true whether or not the target
exists (e.g. if your target is a directory,
/D is not implied automatically, you have to specify it). By contrast,
POSIX symlink doesn't distinguish file or
> -Original Message-
> From: Peter Rosin
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 8:03 AM
>
> On 2016-04-29 13:34, Gene Pavlovsky wrote:
> >>> POSIX says a symlink to a missing target is perfectly
> well-defined
> >>> (you can't stat() through it, but you can readlink() it). But
> >>> Windows nat
On 2016-04-29 13:34, Gene Pavlovsky wrote:
>>> POSIX says a symlink to a missing target is perfectly well-defined (you
>>> can't stat() through it, but you can readlink() it). But Windows native
>>> symlinks can't do that. So the problems you are encountering all stem
>>> from the fact that you ar
> > POSIX says a symlink to a missing target is perfectly well-defined (you
> > can't stat() through it, but you can readlink() it). But Windows native
> > symlinks can't do that. So the problems you are encountering all stem
> > from the fact that you are trying to make Windows do something it ca
Greetings, Eric Blake!
> On 04/28/2016 05:06 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> This is actually a
The list of errors that might be returned by symlink(2) mention target
only 3 times:
EFAULT target or linkpath points outside your accessible address space.
ENAMETOOLONG
target or linkpath was too long.
ENOENT A directory component in linkpath does not exist or is
I don't know if POSIX standard has something to say about that, but
here's a reference from GNU libc:
`man 2 symlink`:
> A symbolic link (also known as a soft link) may point to an existing
> file or to a nonexistent one; the latter case is known as a dangling link.
On 29 April 2016 at 02:
On 04/28/2016 05:06 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> 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.
>
> This is actually an arguable behavior, even in Li
Greetings, Gene Pavlovsky!
> 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
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` cre
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