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Message-ID: <38315ADF.FC781206@softhome.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:23:43 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: Michel de Ruiter <Michel AT smr DOT nl>
CC: "'djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com'" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: First alpha symlink patch
References: <B0FEA00E82A7D1118BFB00A0CC99027821341A AT ARGON>
Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Michel de Ruiter wrote:
> Are you sure this difference is not because of a different configuration
> of Bash? IIRC, Bash has an option to change its behaviour regarding
> this. From a (probably old) Bash Info-file:

I haven't thought about this possibility because Midnight Commander
follows symlinks in the same way as bash does, that's why I've thought 
that it's up to libc... Anyway, I compiled & run small test program 
under Linux to see if really, and I have to confirm this.

> Maybe we should leave this option to Bash, not libc.

I'll leave - cancel my changes.

Laurynas Biveinis


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