Cygwin 1.7: Accessing (local) junctions via SMB

Mario Küchler mkue@gmx.net
Wed Jun 2 09:53:00 GMT 2010


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
(...)
> In contrast, the behaviour of Cygwin 1.7, which is to read the actual
> reparse point content and treat it as symlinks, does not make sense for
> remote reparse points, apparently.  Only the remote system knows how to
> treat them correctly.  So I just applied a patch to Cygwin.

Great! Can you already estimate when this patched version will be
released?

> Thanks for the report,

You are welcome :)

Regards,
	Mario


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