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Date: | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:40:59 +0200 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de> |
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Subject: | Re: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related) |
Message-ID: | <20050329084059.GH23860@cygbert.vinschen.de> |
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On Mar 25 09:37, Karl M wrote: > Sometimes doing a [ -f foo ]; will show a false true while the symlink is > being created. You can see this by opening two bash shells and executing Creating symlinks is not an atomic process in Cygwin. It requires several OS calls to create a symlink. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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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