Subject: Re: Problem with symbolic links in b18
From: [email-masked] (Samuel James Liddicott)

4 Feb 1998 05:59:31 -0800
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To: David Gasul <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

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From: David Gasul <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked] <[email-masked]>
Date: 04 February 1998 13:02
Subject: Problem with symbolic links in b18

    Hi,

    Here's a problem I encountered with symbolic links:

    1. Assume you have a DOS executable in directory c:\xxx called yyy.exe.
    2. Assume bash is run from directory c:\zzz.
    3. Enter bash
    4. Do "ln -s c:\xxx\yyy.exe yyy.exe".
    5. Verify that there's a file "yyy.exe" in c:\zzz.
    6. Run yyy.exe from bash - everything works fine.
    7. Now exit bash.
    8. Run yyy.exe. You get a window telling you that the program has
performed an illegal operation.
        Opening the details button says that the program tried to execute an
illegal instruction
        at 1F00:8AC3.

    This is because your are now running yyy.exe from c:\zzz, and this
yyy.exe is not a real exe file, but one of your cygwin shortcuts that
windows doesn't like.

    Windows & dos checks the current dir for a file before looking in the
path.

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