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 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:35:46 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [bug] fileutils: ln --target-directory with just one target fails - cygcheck-svr.out [1/1] Message-ID: <20041014213546.GA27474@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:43:56PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >$ ls -l dir1 >$ ln -fs --target-directory=dir1 ../test.txt >ln: `dir1/.': cannot overwrite directory >$ ls -l dir1 >total 0 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 ASchulma None 11 Oct 14 16:42 test.txt -> >../test.txt > >What seems to happen here is that when ln --target-directory is given >only one target file (here test.txt), it works on the first one, then >'sees' . as a second target. > >Who is the Cygwin maintainer of fileutils? I can't find any Cygwin doc >files for it. Should I submit this bug upstream? http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00513.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/