On Monday, September 15, 2008 3:29 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 02:31:07PM -0700, Jason wrote: > >Please consider the patch below for inclusion in the Cygwin 1.5 branch which > >corrects the deletion of symbolic link file types (Vista file reparse > >points). > > > >The problem is that CreateFile will open the target and not the link. See > >the MSDN page > >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365682(VS.85).aspx#CreateFile for > >a more detailed description of Vista's symbolic link handling. > > Sorry but we're not anticipating any new releases of Cygwin 1.5.x. > > cgf
Okay, I thought I'd submit the trivial patch just in case someone else runs into the problem. The bug has very interesting side effects if someone does a "rm -rf" of a directory which may contain such symbolic links. Luckily I had a backup. I look forward to the 1.7 release!
