On 10/22/08, Roumen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alon Bar-Lev via RT wrote:
>  [SNIP]
>
> > For some strange reason perl reports that symlinks are available
> > under msys, while it cannot create symbolic link when the to
> > is not reachable from cwd.
> >
>
>
>  May be I can access a msys environment next week :( .
>
>  It is save to assume that msys don't support symbolic links.
>  Dunno why perl report symlink support.
>  MSYS don't support them, don't use even "shortcuts" and command "ln -s"
> just copy files.

True.
Perl actually  copies the files, but it is unable to do so if the
source is not available from working directory. It does not try to
resolve it from target directory.

Alon.
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