[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality

Warren Young warren@etr-usa.com
Wed Feb 21 22:18:00 GMT 2001


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> There is no "binary compatibility change".  Cygwin still recognizes the
> old symlinks.  It just doesn't create them.

I know, but this message reminded me of the issue.  It seems to me that
the DLL filename should change every time the ABI changes.  What's wrong
with that proposal?
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