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commit c33794d202fe76b156ec8753408eb95aa39cc417 Author: David Macek <[email protected]> Date: Tue Nov 24 23:59:01 2015 +0100 Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin creates NTFS symlinks First take on how to describe dereferencing of Cygwin-only symlinks path components when creating NTFS symlinks. Note that I haven't tried building the documentation, so I don't know if the added paragraph breaks anything. Hopefully not. * pathnames.xml: Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin creates NTFS symlinks. Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]> Diff: --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ winsup/doc/pathnames.xml | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 9185f21..ec9f40f 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2015-11-24 David Macek <[email protected]> + * pathnames.xml: Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin + creates NTFS symlinks. + +2015-11-24 David Macek <[email protected]> + * faq-using.xml: Add Forefront TMG to the BLODA. 2015-11-21 Corinna Vinschen <[email protected]> diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml index cdbf9fa..9077303 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml @@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ these two settings, see <xref linkend="using-cygwinenv"></xref>. On AFS, native symlinks are the only supported type of symlink due to AFS lacking support for DOS attributes. This is independent from the <literal>winsymlinks</literal> setting.</para> +<para>Creation of native symlinks follows special rules to ensure the links +are usable outside of Cygwin. This includes dereferencing any Cygwin-only +symlinks that lie in the target path.</para> </listitem> <listitem>
