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authorEgor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com>2016-08-17 23:50:50 +0200
committerEgor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com>2016-08-17 23:50:50 +0200
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# For details, see https://github.com/egor-tensin/cygwin-home.
# Distributed under the MIT License.
+# This relies on the availability of native symlinks.
+# Those are indeed available on NTFS, but require Administrator privileges for
+# creation.
+# It likely won't bother you as long as you don't use the functions defined in
+# this file.
+# In any case, you will see `ln` complaining about some access being denied in
+# case something goes wrong.
+#
+# Remember that in order to force `ln` to use native NTFS symlinks, your
+# `CYGWIN` Windows environment variable value **must** include either
+# `winsymlinks:native` or `winsymlinks:nativestrict`!
+
ensure_symlinks_enabled() {
case "${CYGWIN:-}" in
*winsymlinks:native*) ;;