[Mingw-users] Is it possible to show a symlink?

[Mark M. <bwa...@ya...>]

I did some searching and found some conflicting answers to this question. Most sites say that MinGW does not support symlinks, but then there was a patch floating around that did; Was it ever implemented? (Apparently not since it is still open?)

Regardless, I have created links (by default hard) and evidently they work, although they appear to be exact duplicates of the original. I have tested them by altering the target, and then checking if the link is updated, and lo-and-behold, it is. Doesn't that mean that the files are linked?

The issue is that I can't see links by using `ls -l`, and they certainly don't show up any different in windows explorer. How do I tell if a file is a link made by MSYS `ln`? Or if I'm completely misunderstanding (which is most likely the case) could someone please enlighten me?

Normally ls -l shows the links with an arrow --> to the target, so that's what I'd expect. Thanks!
 
Thanks,
Mark Mikofski
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