Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 2005-09-27 07:54:18
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.

	-hpa
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