Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:11:09 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: "Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND Message-ID: <20001115111109.B7893@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: "Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)" References: <20001115152828.13322.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20001115152828.13322.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 07:28:28AM -0800 On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 07:28:28AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- "Lassi A. Tuura" wrote: >> > Find doesn't dereference symbolic links unless you tell it to. >> >> Yes, but surely it should follow the links to the *current* directory? > >Since the directory is a symbolic link then the leaf (i.e.: the '.' directory) >is a symbolic link. Therefore find doesn't dereference it and reports nothing >unless you tell it to -follow the symbolic link. This is probably different than most, if not all, UNIXes. As I've said in the past there are some problems with the way cygwin currently dereferences symbolic links but I have no plans with respect to the current directory on fixing them anytime soon. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com