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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:39:51 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Text vs. binary - should symlink be resolved?
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In-Reply-To: <000101c03aac$097c4960$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:40:13PM +0400

On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:40:13PM +0400, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>Text vs. binary processing is based on whether file resides on binary or text
>mounted filesystem.
>
>Currently Cygwin seems to check original filename as passed to open call. This
>leads to interesting effect - symlink may point anywhere, and target may
>reside on filesystem mounted with different option.
>
>IMHO the rule to determine open mode should be applied to symlink target
>(final target) - after all, that is _the_ file itself.
>
>What do you think?

I think that code speaks louder than words.  :-)

Send in a patch that makes things work the way you think they should work
and I'll consider it.

cgf

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