From: davidg AT telegate DOT co DOT il (David Gasul) Subject: Problem with symbolic links in b18 4 Feb 1998 04:47:09 -0800 Message-ID: <01bd314f$6a0dab20$a60110ac.cygnus.gnu-win32@davidg.intr.telegate.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000F_01BD3160.2D967B20" To: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BD3160.2D967B20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 at 1F00:8AC3. Cheers, Dave ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BD3160.2D967B20 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

Here's a problem I encountered with symbolic=20 links:

1. Assume you have a DOS executable in directory = c:\xxx called=20 yyy.exe.

2. Assume bash is run from directory=20 c:\zzz.

3. Enter bash

4. Do "ln -s c:\xxx\yyy.exe=20 yyy.exe".

5. Verify that there's a file "yyy.exe" in = c:\zzz.

6. Run yyy.exe from bash - everything works=20 fine.

7. Now exit bash.

8. Run yyy.exe. You get a window telling you that = the program=20 has performed an illegal operation.

Opening the details button says = that the program tried to execute an illegal instruction=20

at=20 1F00:8AC3.

Cheers,

Dave

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