Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID:	<010401c2d041$e76060e0$78d96f83@pomello>
From:	"Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To:	<t4bs AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References:	<000901c2d022$869cbe80$0200a8c0 AT ufo>
Subject:	Re: cygwin symlink? bug
Date:	Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:48:19 -0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
X-Priority:	3
X-MSMail-Priority:	Normal
X-MimeOLE:	Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106

Trevor Forbes wrote:
> I am having problem with some of my build scripts and the following
> demonstrates the problem:
>
> If run the following (as a script) I get -- /tmp/foo/bar
> # !/bin/bash

Are you sure? I can reproduce your results only if I change the shebang to
/bin/sh.

> cd /tmp; mkdir -p foo/bar; ln -f -s foo/bar bar; cd bar; pwd; cd ..
>
> If I type the line in a shell then I get what I expected -- /tmp/bar
>
> I am using cygwin-1.3.20-1 but do not I think it is a new feature.
>
> Is my logic correct?

IIRC, Linux does this too - but I'm not easily able to test that at the
moment.


Max.


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -