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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2005-01-28 12:10:22 +0300 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2005-01-28 12:10:22 +0300 |
| commit | 0eefa5256bd80d73fe7116cc77ad84418848eb11 (patch) | |
| tree | d9e33c56d949115fbed435e9e1e28116482792c8 /winsup | |
| parent | 02da559a0bfa2cc354265f09a38f3f74054e79c8 (diff) | |
* how-using.texinfo: Change text about using shortcuts.
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo | 27 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 638428d28..45c62348b 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2005-01-28 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * how-using.texinfo: Change text about using shortcuts. + 2005-01-22 Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@yahoo.com> * how-api.texinfo: Make snapshot URL an HTML link. diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo index adb371f4b..5c46708bb 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo @@ -160,17 +160,22 @@ or @subsection Why can't I cd into a shortcut to a directory? -This is only valid up to but not including version 1.3.0: - -Cygwin does not follow MS Windows Explorer Shortcuts (*.lnk files). It -sees a shortcut as a regular file and this you cannot "cd" into it. - -Some people have suggested replacing the current symbolic link scheme -with shortcuts. The major problem with this is that .LNK files would -then be used to symlink Cygwin paths that may or may not be valid -under native Win32 non-Cygwin applications such as Explorer. - -Since version 1.3.0, Cygwin treats shortcuts as symlinks. +Cygwin versions < 1.3.0 do not follow MS Windows Explorer Shortcuts +(*.lnk files). It sees a shortcut as a regular file and this you +cannot "cd" into it. + +Since version 1.3.0, Cygwin uses shortcuts as symlinks by default. + +Cygwin shortcuts are different from shortcuts created by native Windows +applications. Windows applications can usually make use of Cygwin +shortcuts but not vice versa. This is by choice. The reason is that +Windows shortcuts may contain a bunch of extra information which would +get lost, if, for example, Cygwin tar archives and extracts them as +symlinks. + +Changing a Cygwin shortcut in Windows Explorer usually changes a Cygwin +shortcut into a Windows native shortcut. Afterwards, Cygwin will not +recognize it as symlink anymore. @subsection I'm having basic problems with find. Why? |