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| author | David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com> | 2015-11-25 01:59:01 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2015-11-26 12:23:36 +0300 |
| commit | c33794d202fe76b156ec8753408eb95aa39cc417 (patch) | |
| tree | 60b168de7ef05e5aaf56a7757767875b6dc74c6e /winsup | |
| parent | 76b5c03bd726a70251d6b9e85961f62a0810fd8a (diff) | |
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 <corinna@vinschen.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'winsup')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/pathnames.xml | 3 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 9185f21cb..ec9f40f7a 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2015-11-24 David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com> + * pathnames.xml: Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin + creates NTFS symlinks. + +2015-11-24 David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com> + * faq-using.xml: Add Forefront TMG to the BLODA. 2015-11-21 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.xml index cdbf9fad6..9077303b4 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> |