From: Giuseppe Bilotta Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:00:18 GMT Subject: Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin Message-ID: <11uvm3it7p3tu.1wbs1o8fvs02r.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:05:29 -0700 (PDT), Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > >> However, it might be possible to use .lnk files, which would work on >> both NTFS and FAT32, and even under Win9x. > > The .lnk files are a shell thing, not an OS one. Try to open()+read() a > .lnk file and look at what you get ... Well, sure. I wasn't thinking about just substituting .lnk files for symlinks, but that's the closest thing you can get on Windows, currently, so maybe supporting this kind of thing would be the best approach. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta [W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Col. William S. Smith, 1787