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Re: canonicalize_file_name should support win32 shortcuts
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: canonicalize_file_name should support win32 shortcuts |
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Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:38:31 -0400 |
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> * Sam Steingold <address@hidden> [2011-05-17 14:11:54 -0400]:
>
> it appears that neither canonicalize nor canonicalize-lgpl support win32
> shortcuts (either used directly or as used by cygwin).
> it would be nice if they did - then we would be able to use
> canonicalize-lgpl in clisp.
>
> now clisp uses file w32shell.c:
> http://clisp.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/clisp/clisp/raw-file/363f5b952505/src/w32shell.c
> which works like a charm for us.
> it would be wonderful if we could shift the burden of maintaining it to you.
Alas, clisp only supports the "*.lnk" style cygwin symlinks, not the now
default "cookie" style.
You will need to extract parts of winsup/cygwin/path.cc to support both styles.
My feature request still stands.
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