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Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link


On Apr 12 15:15, Paul Bibbings wrote:
> In the past I have used corutils' link without any problem.  I can't
> recall when I last did use it successfully, but certainly prior to
> Cygwin 1.7.  At the moment, however, link is not actually linking, but
> appears rather to be creating a simple copy of the file linked to, as
> the following illustrates (on Windows Vista):
> 
>    14:57:11 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>    /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $cp /usr/bin/zoo.exe zoo.exe
> 
>    14:57:37 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>    /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $link zoo.exe zoo_link
> 
>    14:57:54 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>    /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $ls -l
>    total 128
>    -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo.exe
>    -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo_link.exe

Looks exactly as expected.  Notice the link count.  if you us `ls -li'
you will also see that both directory entries have the same inode number,
so they are referring to the same file.  What's your problem again?


Corinna

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