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Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:41:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:23:48AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > cygpath -u a:
> > >
> > > Corinna
> >
> > Corinna,
> >
> > we needed a way to refer to the Windows directory independent of
> > the mounts (I think that's what Kazuhiro referred to). There was a
>
> But that's what cygpath is good for. When using cygpath on-the-fly
> you have always a valid path. I didn't suggest to store the cygpath
> result for using it three weeks later.
>
> Corinna
Yes, but when you create a symlink, that's exactly what you're doing
(storing the result). Or are you suggesting re-creating the symlinks on
the fly every time? Can you think of another way of making symlinks
mount-independent?
Igor
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