Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe From: Robert Collins To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20040212215929.GA19769@redhat.com> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040212153628.0393dba8@127.0.0.1> <001e01c3f1b1$b93d3ed0$6401a8c0@RossLap> <20040212215929.GA19769@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-OzyvMJNDO0J2MEAOoByx" Message-Id: <1076623805.1258.11.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:10:05 +1100 X-IsSubscribed: yes --=-OzyvMJNDO0J2MEAOoByx Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: > >One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partitio= n) > >involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe -> pdksh.exe to a = hard > >link. When an new version of pdksh was installed, it resulted in two non > >linked files. I had the new version as psksh.exe and the old version as > >ksh.exe. >=20 > Huh. I wonder why that happened. I would expect setup.exe to just > overwrite one file, resulting in the change being reflected in the > linked copy. >=20 > I'm no longer familiar enough with setup's internals to say for sure > if that is what happening but it does appear that the file is being > deleted. That behavior could probably be changed with an appropriate > PTC. Uninstall + install is the setup process. To fix it is possible... but not trivial. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-OzyvMJNDO0J2MEAOoByx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAK/m8I5+kQ8LJcoIRAqtPAJ0Q8AVYFZYTxn49aTBrhoefeIrcjACgzU0w zJo5UYuP6zNn98J3AE1JTXk= =R+7e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-OzyvMJNDO0J2MEAOoByx--