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Re: API for excess DOS file attributes??
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: API for excess DOS file attributes?? |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:23:48 +0300 |
> From: Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:59:09 +0300
>
> So I think that I can not excess to this data from Emacs
> (native Windows build).
Not from Lisp, no.
> I try rewrite 'follow-cygwin-symlink' from:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/setup-cygwin.el
>
> for more strict conformance of definition of symbolic link
> in Cygwin (from 'cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html'):
>
> The file style symlinks are files containing a magic cookie
> followed by the path to which the link points. They are marked
> with the System DOS attribute so that only files with that
> attribute have to be read to determine whether or not the file is
> a symbolic link.
What's in setup-cygwin.el is about as good as you can get in Lisp. A
better solution would be to add to file-symlink-p and
make-symbolic-link the ability to recognize and create Cygwin-style
symlink (and Windows 7 style symlink as well), but that requires
changes on the C level.