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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: git 0.99.7b doesn't build on Cygwin
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:15:17 -0700
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 

Cygwin symbolic links are implemented as .lnk files on the underlying 
filesystem was my point.

	-hpaa