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Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks


On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> Technically, symlink creation should not need to check
> the source's existence (after all, that's why creating dangling symlinks
> is possible), but cygwin has to do it to make .exe magic more consistent.

Eric,

I appreciate the effort you spend to get this right, and hate to ask for
extras (especially if those are non-standard), but would it be possible to
add a Cygwin-specific option[*] to ln that disables this?  The reason is
that I frequently create symlinks to files/directories on network shares,
and those shares aren't always available.  When they aren't, any access to
them locks up the shell until the SMB request times out (which can take a
while and isn't interruptible).  Having ln always check the target of the
symlink will make "ln -s" nigh unusable.
	Igor
[*] I'd suggest --disable-exe-magic (no need to expend a short option)
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