On Apr 16 16:49, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Luca Masini wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is the right way to submit a patch. > > > > Anyway the attached patch should solve the problem with symbolic links. > > For ex. when editing /etc/hosts we get the warning > > E303: Unable to open swap file for "hosts", recovery impossible > > (/etc/hosts is a symlink in cygwin) > > The mch_FullName() in os_unix.c already takes care of symlinks. Why > would this extra code for Cygwin be needed?
This is about the same problem as descibied in the thread starting at http://www.mail-archive.com/vim-dev@vim.org/msg02489.html Maybe we should convert DOS paths always to UNIX paths in mch_FullName(), instead of trying to match both, DOS and UNIX paths? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat
