Re: [Mingw-users] Support for Native Symlink : 1st step

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Keith Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 13 August 2010 23:59:59 Ladislav Michl wrote:
>> Here is updated version of the patch. Some code got dropped as it
>> should be implemented different way and smaller patch makes reviewing
>> easier.
>>
>> Questions:
>> - where to hook code supposed to run only once at dll startup?
>> - what logic should be used to determine whenever native symlinks are
>>    allowed or not? (fail or fallback should be an option)
>> - to which header file CreateSymbolicLink prototype and friends
>> belong?
>>
>> Comments and suggestions welcome (especially from Vincent :-))
>
> Well, I am not Vincent, and the technical lead WRT MSYS integration must
> come from Cesar Strauss, but I do have one comment...
>
> This work is much too valuable, and deserves a deeper level of technical
> discussion than should be entrusted to this general mailing list; please
> open a ticket on the patch tracker; see:
>
> http://mingw.org/wiki/SubmitPatches
>
> so that it doesn't slip under the radar again.
>

Yes, please do.  We are definitely interested in the work.

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