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Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Adam Wolbach wrote:
> > http://www.google.com/search?as_q=windows+shortcut+file+format
> >
> > The first match
> >
> > http://mediasrv.ns.ac.yu/extra/fileformat/windows/lnk/shortcut.pdf
> >
> > is what you're looking for and what I used when implementing the
> > shortcut stuff.
>
> Thanks, this gets me more than halfway to what I need to know -- the
> missing piece is how these fields need to be filled out to appear as a
> symbolic link to cygwin. Worst case I can just hunt through the cygwin
> source, but if you happen to know or have notes lying around somewhere,
> it might be useful to more than just us to post them somewhere. Thanks
> again.
Your best source of information is probably symlink_worker() in
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc?content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=src&only_with_tag=HEAD>.
HTH,
Igor
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