Cygwin and Vista symlinks using mklink problem

Paul Carew Paul.Carew@CloseReachCommunications.com
Wed Mar 12 03:12:00 GMT 2008


Beware!!
I have noticed that Cygwin and the new Vista command 'mklink' do not 
co-exist very happily.
If you create a Vista symlink using mklink and then try to  delete/remove it 
using 'rm', the target is deleted and not the symlink!

Best Regards

A. J. Paul Carew
--
Close Reach Communications Inc.
E: Paul.Carew ( at ) CloseReachCommunications.com
W: CloseReachCommunications.com 


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