Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/02/05/14:30:25
I though I posted this to the newsgroup earlier, but I guess not.
Without getting into the symbolic link/win shortcut debate, there seems to be
something funny about bash in that the symbolic links to a .exe file can not have
a .exe extension.
i.e.
ln -s /somepath/bin/runemacs.exe emacs.exe
DOESN'T WORK
ln -s /somepath/bin/runemacs.exe emacs
WORKS
Of course, this only works under bash and not from a Win966/NT Command Prompt or
window.
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here's a problem I encountered with symbolic links:
> >
> > 1. Assume you have a DOS executable in directory c:\xxx called yyy.exe.
> > 2. Assume bash is run from directory c:\zzz.
> > 3. Enter bash
> > 4. Do "ln -s c:\xxx\yyy.exe yyy.exe".
> > 5. Verify that there's a file "yyy.exe" in c:\zzz.
> > 6. Run yyy.exe from bash - everything works fine.
> > 7. Now exit bash.
> > 8. Run yyy.exe. You get a window telling you that the program has
> >performed an illegal operation.
> > Opening the details button says that the program tried to execute an
> >illegal instruction
> > at 1F00:8AC3.
> >
> >
> > This is because your are now running yyy.exe from c:\zzz, and this
> >yyy.exe is not a real exe file, but one of your cygwin shortcuts that
> >windows doesn't like.
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