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Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml index 2c47bc371..b9bdd2291 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/pathnames.sgml @@ -291,12 +291,11 @@ Windows path, strips off the innermost directory component and adds well as the innermost directory (<filename>bin</filename>) is stripped off: <filename>C:\cygwin\</filename>. Then "etc" and the filename to look for is attached: <filename>C:\cygwin\etc\fstab</filename>. So the -/etc directory must be parallel to the directory in which the cygwn1.dll +/etc directory must be parallel to the directory in which the cygwin1.dll exists and <filename>/etc</filename> must not be a Cygwin symlink pointing to another directory. Consequentially none of the files from -the above list, including the directory -<filename>/etc/fstab.d</filename>is allowed to be a Cygwin symlink -either.</para> +the above list, including the directory <filename>/etc/fstab.d</filename> +is allowed to be a Cygwin symlink either.</para> <para>However, native NTFS symlinks and reparse points are transparent when accessing the above files so all these files as well as |