native symlink
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon May 13 15:39:00 GMT 2013
On May 13 11:12, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 5/13/2013 11:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Apr 26 16:39, James Gregurich wrote:
> >>I had one of my guys test the work this morning. The creation of
> >>symlinks works fine. Did you implement a utility that can convert an
> >>existing cygwin symlink to native form?
> >
> >This can easily be accomplished by a script, utilizing readlink(1) and
> >ln(1).
>
> Well, if the he wants to convert to a *native* link, then he'd use
> winln(1) from cygutils rather than ln(1).
Why? What speaks against
#!/bin/bash
tgt=$(readlink "$1")
rm "$1" && CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native ln -s "${tgt}" "$1"
?
> But the larger point
> remains: this conversion can be done from a script.
Corinna
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