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Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP
- From: Jeff dot Hodges at KingsMountain dot com
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:12:21 -0800
- Subject: Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP
- Reply-to: Jeff dot Hodges at KingsMountain dot com
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:43:04AM -0800, Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com
> wrote:
> >> On Jan 31 12:25, Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com wrote:
> >> > corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com said:
> >> > > There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon
> >> > > problem.
> >> >
> >> > Super. Tho, will fixing "the icon problem" also fix the
> >> > behavior dichotomy
> >> > between Explorer and Open/Save dialogs (which I noted in my original
> >> > posting in this thread)?
> >>
> >> Yes.
> >
> >Great, thanks :)
> >
> >When might this find it's way into the setup.exe install?
>
> Some time in the next year, for sure.
it'd be helpful to know in which package the cygwin symlink functionality is
materialized in, so as to watch for appropriate update announcement(s). I
suspect it's embodied at least in both coreutils and cygwin1.dll, but am not
sure.
might somone endeavor to answer this? thanks,
JeffH
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