From 8ce3e7abc8d69ef29d890c85a7c6d1ac32334e95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corinna Vinschen Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:51:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * new-features.sgml: Add section about chaged (no)winsymlink default. --- winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ winsup/doc/new-features.sgml | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 4ead25882..a85e8168c 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-03-24 Corinna Vinschen + + * new-features.sgml: Add section about chaged (no)winsymlink default. + 2009-03-24 Corinna Vinschen * cygwinenv.sgml: Move "codepage:xxx" to the removed options section. diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index 4f8db0f02..cae0b492e 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ - New open(2) flags O_DIRECTORY, O_EXEC and O_SEARCH. +- Make the original style symlinks (file with SYSTEM attribute set) + default again when creating symlinks. Only create Windows shortcut + style symlinks if CYGWIN=winsymlinks is set in the environment. + - Handle NTFS native symlinks available since Vista/2008 as symlinks (but don't create Vista/2008 symlinks due to unfortunate OS restrictions).