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David Antliff wrote: > In my experience, it should be possible to create symlinks to any > arbitrary target, regardless of whether it actually exists or not. > Therefore, if I create a symlink to "/bin/ls" then I'd expect that to > be the content of the symlink - the automatic behaviour of rewriting > it to "/bin/ls.exe" is unexpected and therefore probably incorrect > according to some "standard" somewhere. I totally agree. The symlink target should be stored "as is" without further interpretation. The example of non existing target is good. An this gives me an idea: $ mv /bin/ls /bin/ls.bak $ ln -s /bin/ls lls $ mv /bin/ls.bak /bin/ls $ ls -l lls lrwxrwxrwx 1 vincent cygwin 7 Oct 4 22:19 lls -> /bin/ls $ ./lls The symlink looks good and it works ;-) -- Vincent Rivière -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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