native symlink

[James Gregurich]

Why don't you add an API call and utility to actually convert an existing cygwin symlink into a native symlink.  I'll give you code that does the work. Cygwin already reads and uses the native symlinks. you might as well provide a way to create them.




On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> - Since Vista and the introduction of native symlinks, the OS has
> multiple ways to suppress symlink usage.  By default, remote symlinks
> are disallowed, or better, they are not evaluated and the OS returns
> an error instead.  This can be changed with the on-board fsutil
> utility.  Cygwin didn't yet handle the case that symlinks couldn't be
> read.  That's fixed now.  Cygwin returns ELOOP for unreadable
> symlinks.  ENOENT wouldn't work in this scenario.
>