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Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin creates NTFS symlinks

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First take on how to describe dereferencing of Cygwin-only symlinks path
components when creating NTFS symlinks.

Note that I haven't tried building the documentation, so I don't know if
the added paragraph breaks anything. Hopefully not.

	* pathnames.xml: Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin
	creates NTFS symlinks.

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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David Macek
2015-11-24 23:59:01 +01:00
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2015-11-24 David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com>
* pathnames.xml: Add a section describing peculiarities of how Cygwin
creates NTFS symlinks.
2015-11-24 David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com>
* faq-using.xml: Add Forefront TMG to the BLODA.

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On AFS, native symlinks are the only supported type of symlink due to
AFS lacking support for DOS attributes. This is independent from the
<literal>winsymlinks</literal> setting.</para>
<para>Creation of native symlinks follows special rules to ensure the links
are usable outside of Cygwin. This includes dereferencing any Cygwin-only
symlinks that lie in the target path.</para>
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