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ln -s symlink question
- From: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 05:39:04 -0700
- Subject: ln -s symlink question
Hi folks,
I'm adding support for hidden and system attributes to Wine
to support cygwin's symlinks. The following questions
are not wine-related; I'm doing my testing on vista.
If I look at /bin/vi with both dir in cmd and ls -l in cygwin, I see
that it's a non-.lnk symlink, i.e. dir shows it as an 18 byte
system file, and ls -l shows it as a symlink.
But I can't seem to create that style of symlink with ln -s.
If I do
ln -s a b
and then in cmd do
dir b*
I see a 333 byte non-system file named b.lnk.
What's going on? How can I create the other style of symlink
with ln -s?
Thanks,
Dan
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