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Message-ID: | <003701c2b0ab$b58ce080$0100a8c0@p4> |
From: | "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au> |
To: | <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>, "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> |
References: | <E18SymM-0000UT-00 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> |
Subject: | Re: fileutils 4.1: ls and symlinks [PATCH] |
Date: | Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:04:34 +1100 |
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Reply-To: | djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com |
> Below is a patch for 'ls' from fileutils 4.1. It's another case > where the path handling needs to be updated to cope > with DOS-style absolute paths. > > This patch is important, because the test suite uses symlinks > extensively and uses 'ls' to check that 'cp', 'mv', etc. > handle symlinks correctly. > > You can also get the patch here: > > http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/fileutils/4.1/djgpp/fil41-c vs-ls-symlink-20021230.diff > > I'm not planning on doing another fileutils 4.1 release for a while. > Andrew, please apply this patch, when building fileutils against CVS. > You may also want to include this patch in the source distributions > in gnu/filutil4.1/djgpp. By the time I get my main XP box back to an operational stage I will be able to incorporate the chanegs and put the updates sources on clio. I estimate that this may take me until the weekend or late next week. I love it when windoz goes a bit wonky.....grrrrr..... Andrew
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