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It seems a little unfortunate to have the name clash with the well-known Unix utility (this appears to be intentional? See how the web page is laid out like a t
by chungy 10y ago
It seems a little unfortunate to have the name clash with the well-known Unix utility (this appears to be intentional? See how the web page is laid out like a traditional Unix manpage, too), but without the same command line arguments as said utility.
If this is important to you (as it is to me), it's worth noting that Cygwin supports creating native NTFS symlinks, and you can use the good old GNU ln (same one you'd use on Linux!) to do so. There are some caveats, but it should at least attempt them. See the documentation: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlinks https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#pathnames-symlin...
- JonnieCache 10y agoLike I said in another comment, it's the ACL impedance-mismatch that's the problem with cygwin :(
- chungy 10y agoIt's a different issue. I sympathize that you can't really back up files with Cygwin and maintain the same file attributes (it's certainly not impossible for them to do it while maintaining a POSIX nature -- FreeBSD and illumos have no issues with NFSv4 ACLs, which are a superset of all the NTFS ones), but as far as making sym- or hard-links to files, Cygwin is perfectly fine. (And let's not mind that NTFS is complicated enough that almost all native Windows tools won't backup it either. Your best bets are wimlib or dism...)