Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/06/13/15:45:38
--- Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Tuesday, 13 June, 2000 Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com wrote:
>
> EB> I just wanted to caution the community about the following scenario:
>
> EB> ln tcltest Tcltest
>
> EB> This will have the effect of:
>
> EB> rm -f tcltest
>
> hmm. i've just tried it with cygwin1.dll i use
>
> %%% Cygwin dll major: 1001
> %%% Cygwin dll minor: 1
> %%% Cygwin dll epoch: 19
> %%% Cygwin dll bad signal mask: 19005
> %%% Cygwin dll old termios: 00005
> %%% Cygwin api major: 0
> %%% Cygwin api minor: 19
> %%% Cygwin shared data: 3
> %%% Cygwin dll identifier: cygwin1
> %%% Cygwin mount registry: 2
> %%% Cygwin cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
> %%% Cygwin cygwin registry name: Cygwin
> %%% Cygwin program options name: Program Options
> %%% Cygwin cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
> %%% Cygwin build date: Wed May 10 17:34:30 2000
> %%% Cygwin shared id: cygwin1S3
>
> and it prints
>
> ln: Tcltest: File exists
>
> as expected.
>
> if it's broken i latest snapshot, shouldn't it be included to cygwin's
> testsuite along with "mv aaa AAA" correctness check?
>
Ok, I'm redfaced now. It was the script being used by make removing the
supposed link that removed the file and not ln itself. Thanks, for verifying
this report.
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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