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Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/new-features.sgml')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/new-features.sgml | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml index 31410d1db..47a2d6058 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml @@ -75,10 +75,14 @@ - New open(2) flags O_DIRECTORY, O_EXEC and O_SEARCH. -- Make the original style symlinks (file with SYSTEM attribute set) +- Make the "plain file with SYSTEM attribute set" style symlink default again when creating symlinks. Only create Windows shortcut style symlinks if CYGWIN=winsymlinks is set in the environment. +- Symlinks are now using UTF-16 encoding for the target filename for + better internationalization support. Cygwin 1.7 can read all old style + symlinks, but the new style is not compatible with older Cygwin releases. + - Handle NTFS native symlinks available since Vista/2008 as symlinks (but don't create Vista/2008 symlinks due to unfortunate OS restrictions). |