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Subject:	RE: Exec and parent environment [attn tcltk maintainer]
Date:	Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:04:52 -0000
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On 02 February 2006 17:53, Eric Blake wrote:

>> Because tclsh.exe is a symlink to tclsh84.exe, which has
>> 
>> $ ls -l /bin/tclsh.exe
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators SYSTEM 11 Jul 30  2004 /bin/tclsh.exe ->
>> tclsh84.exe*
> 
> Hmm - we should teach cygcheck to dereference symlinks.


  Or at least to notice if the file it opens is not an exe at all!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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