Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin

From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Date: Sep 26, 2005, 22:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509261502080.1716@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <43386E0A.6010607@zytor.com>

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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> 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 ...
>> 
>
> Except that Cygwin uses them transparently, so if you do open() and read() 
> under Cygwin they work as expected.

With Cygwin you don't even need .lnk files, since it already supports all the Unix symlinks APIs/cmds. The discussion born thinking about a native Win32 interface, w/out the Cygwin crud in it.

- Davide