[Bug 15679] cygwin symlinks not working in wine

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15679


Paul "TBBle" Hampson <Paul.Hampson at Pobox.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Paul "TBBle" Hampson <Paul.Hampson at Pobox.com>  2009-01-13 06:01:05 ---
To recognise that kind of shortcut (which the Cygwin source refers to as
old-style shortcuts, contrasted with enhanced .lnk files) the file needs to
have the System attribute set, and not the Directory attribute.

I presume the problem is that Wine doesn't show files as marked with the System
attribute, since there's no really useful POSIX equivalent that comes to mind,
so it prolly ignores the cygwin request to mark the file with the System
attribute.

I haven't looked at the Wine code to verify this.

There's a winsymlinks option in the CYGWIN environment variable or the registry
which enables .lnk-based symlinks, but those are only processed if marked
Read-Only and non-Directory.


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