I've been trying to find out how 'ls -l' returns the target of a symlink on windows:
$ ls -l lrwxrwxrwx 1 user None 1 Aug 22 15:16 a -> b lrwxrwxrwx 1 user None 5 Aug 22 15:16 b -> final -rw-r--r-- 1 user None 29 Aug 22 15:16 final My google searches have pointed me to the windows GetFinalPathNameByHandle() function but that does get me the intermediate links -- just the final path (which, of course, is what is implied by the name of the library call). I'm running Msys2 on win7x64. I've looked thru the coreutils for msys2 and cannot find how it is done. That lead me to cygwin coreutils and, again, there does not seem to be anything specific there. Both rely on a working lstat(). This leads me to believe that the guts of the lstat() for windows is implemented in the cygwin.dll. I'm sure this is a no-brainer for those in the know, but could someone point me to where I could download the source for the cygwin dll so I could examine it? Thank you. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
