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Re: bug: hard links to soft links do not work
- From: "John Vincent" <jpv50 at hotmail dot com>
- To: cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:34:55 +0000
- Subject: Re: bug: hard links to soft links do not work
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Hi,
I've looked at this some more, and I think I've figured out what it's
doing. The hard link is now a link to the *target* of the soft link
instead of a link to the soft link itself. This seems like a reasonable
compromis to me (since the whole soft link thing is a bit of a kludge
on windows, due to the .lnk suffix). Does it still do something
reasonable if the target is a link to a link?
Also, I think the warning message you get in Linux about non-portability
would also be a useful addition to the cygwin version of the ln program.
Well, that's my tuppence worth ...
/John Vincent.
I've checked in a patch. What I've done isn't consistent with linux but
at least it does something sensible now:
j:\tmp>touch x
j:\tmp>ln -s x y
j:\tmp>ln y z
j:\tmp>ls -l ?
-rw-rw-rw- 2 cgf None 0 Aug 1 19:56 x
lrwxrwxrwx 1 cgf None 82 Aug 1 19:56 y -> x
-rw-rw-rw- 2 cgf None 0 Aug 1 19:56 z
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