From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Problem with symbolic links in b18 4 Feb 1998 10:19:54 -0800 Message-ID: <19980204170803.26547.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: davidg AT telegate DOT co DOT il Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com The symbolic links created from the ln command from cygwin32 is not know to the win32 world outside of cygwin32. >From: "David Gasul" >To: >Subject: Problem with symbolic links in b18 >Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 11:29:38 +0200 > >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 > > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".