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authorCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2020-04-03 21:44:00 +0200
committerCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2020-04-03 21:44:00 +0200
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Cygwin: docs: revamp docs explaining symlinks
The descriptions of symlink handling are a bit dated, so revamp them and add the new WSL symlink type. Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ 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
-<filename>/etc</filename> itself may be NTFS symlinks or reparse
-points.</para>
+<filename>/etc</filename> itself may be NTFS symlinks.</para>
<para>Last but not least, make sure that these files are world-readable.
Every process of any user account has to read these files potentially,