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 Message-ID: X-Originating-Email: [karlm30@hotmail.com] X-Sender: karlm30@hotmail.com From: "Karl M" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:37:30 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Mar 2005 17:37:31.0273 (UTC) FILETIME=[5253A790:01C53161] X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi All... While doing some testing with keychain and the snapshots while getting ready to release a keychain service package (still working on it)...I noticed the following Sometimes doing a [ -f foo ]; will show a false true while the symlink is being created. You can see this by opening two bash shells and executing while :; do echo $$> foo.lnk; rm foo.lnk; done in the first one and while :; do if [ -f foo ]; then echo here; else echo " there"; fi; done in the second one. Thanks, ...Karl -- 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/