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Date:	Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:37:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	Steven Penny <svnpenn AT gmail DOT com>
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To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Symlink file size
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Cygwin seems to have no way to print an accurate size of a symlink. Consider
this command:

    $ touch alfa.txt
    $ CYGWIN= ln -s alfa.txt bravo.txt

Now cmd.exe can print the correct size just fine:

    > dir /AS
    2017-03-07  09:26 PM                30 bravo.txt

However Cygwin prints incorrect 8 bytes with ls:

    $ ls -l
    total 2
    -rw-r--r-- 1 Steven None 0 Mar  7 21:26 alfa.txt
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 Steven None 8 Mar  7 21:26 bravo.txt -> alfa.txt

and stat:

    $ stat --format %s bravo.txt
    8

and du:

    $ du -b bravo.txt
    8       bravo.txt

and find:

    $ find bravo.txt -printf %s
    8

wc seems to draw from the source file:

    $ wc -c bravo.txt
    0 bravo.txt

What gives?


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