Re: bug: aap does not follow symlinks in Cygwin

Cory Dodt wrote:

> The following trivial aap file will demonstrate a difference between how
> ~ A-A-P operates on Unix and on Windows.  Try this test on both real unix
> and a cygwin install:
> 
> First, set up a directory with a subdirectory, and a symlink to it.
> 
> $ mkdir -p 1/2
> $ ln -s 1 1x

Eh, symlinks on MS-Windows?  These don't exist.  Perhaps Cygwin has some
internal trick to make it work for Cygwin programs, but it won't work in
general.  Unless you use a Cygwin version of Python perhaps.

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