Subject: Re: Problem with symbolic links in b18
From: [email-masked] (Christopher Faylor)

4 Feb 1998 22:01:42 -0800
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In article <[email-masked]>,
Samuel James Liddicott  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>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.

Ah.  I smell a discussion of why we can/can't/ought-to use Win95, WinN% 4.0
shortcuts in place of cygwin symbolic links coming...

After all it has been several weeks.
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