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Symbolic links not backwards-compatible


I seem to remember some improvements about soft links were announced recently, but I only noticed right now that those are not backwards-compatible.
A link created on cygwin 1.7 and read on cygwin 1.5 will be reproduced as a sequence of UTF-16 bytes, starting with a BOM, and usually terminating soon because every second byte is zero, so it doesn't work.


If that was intended or accepted as a trade-off, just forget my mail; I just though it should be known.

Thomas


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