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Date: | Thu, 17 Mar 2005 06:07:07 -0700 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to POSIX, creating a hardlink to a symlink is supposed to be impossible, because link(2) is supposed to resolve symlinks before performing the actual link. See http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg08153.html. $ touch a $ ln -s a b $ link b c # Bug: c should be a hard link to a, not b $ ls -l a b c - -rw-r--r-- 1 eblake None 0 Mar 15 19:04 a lrwxrwxrwx 2 eblake None 1 Mar 15 19:04 b -> a lrwxrwxrwx 2 eblake None 1 Mar 15 19:04 c -> a - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCOYD684KuGfSFAYARAvD7AKDCuNgYMbh+/ABSGkVgYsQL8TpyogCfds5H OCJpNzpvCqSv5RbLTuyoVY8= =aOAm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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