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Re: Added some interesting functionality to my cygwin sandbox
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:15:33AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Why? I just tried it on Linux, and could not create a symlink to an empty
>path. If we added some logic to link processing code in Cygwin to revert
>to the Win32 path if the POSIX path is empty, I don't see any reason why
>this woulnd't work... It won't even be a slowdown for normal symlinks,
>since we'd only do this bit of logic if we failed to open the POSIX path.
I really like this idea. Corinna? The symlink stuff is your code. What
do you think?
(Of course, you can *always* use the mount table for all of this. I wonder
if we should just be using the mount table here.)
>> But as we're trying to get around a problem with cymlink destinations
>> how about having an internal name like the cygdrive prefix? That way we
>> could guarentee that it would point to the correct location.
>
>Yeah, that's the previously suggested alternative. However, I'm wary of
>any hard-coded valid paths... Corinna's idea is basically that, but with
>the path that's normally invalid.
Anything which uses a hard-coded path pollutes the name space. I'd
rather avoid that.
cgf