Using winsymlinks, it seems that if you create a symbolic link to a non-existent file, the POSIX target gets set, but the Windows target does not. The cygpath command will return a valid Windows path for the non-existent file, so that should be used for the Windows target value. It doesn't make sense that the ln would only work partially. Thanks! Dave -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple