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Date:	Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:48 +0200
From:	Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
Reply-To:	Pavel Tsekov <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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To:	"Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Fun with symlinks?
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Hello Peter,

Thursday, June 27, 2002, 7:17:25 AM, you wrote:

[snip]

PAC> Fine, so far.  Now, suppose you got a notice that a new Bash was uploaded
PAC> to the cygwin release area.  So, you fire up 'setup' and tell it to
PAC> upgrade Bash.  Now, start Bash.  Notice your changes don't show up anymore.
PAC> Now, do an 'ls -al /etc/pro*'

PAC> -rw-r--r--    1 Administ None          386 May 30 19:08 /etc/profile
PAC> -rw-r--r--    1 Administ None          386 May 30 19:08 /etc/profile

This is not real :) If you go to the /etc directory from a windows
command prompt and type 'dir' you will see:

profile
profile.lnk

The second one is your link and it is compatible with the windows type
shortcuts.

I know there is a way, in terms of a flag in the CYGWIN variable, to
control the type of symlinks which cygwin creates, but I don't
remember the details :( You can check the user's guide though.

I agree that the setup.exe behaviour in this case maybe needs an
improvement.


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