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From: Paul  Stodghill <stodghil AT cs DOT cornell DOT edu>
To: "'Earnie Boyd'" <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>,
        "Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)"
	 <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:51:50 -0500
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> Find doesn't dereference symbolic links unless you tell it 
> to.  The command
>   find -follow -type f
> would display the files you want displayed.

The way that Cygwin handles CWD=='.' when '.' is a symlink seems to be
different from Solaris, Linux and IRIS. I tried both NFS and local
disks.

ringding% uname -a
SunOS ringding 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4
ringding% find --version
GNU find version 4.1
ringding% ls -ld a b
drwxr-sr-x   2 stodghil stodghil      512 Nov 15 09:19 a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 stodghil stodghil        1 Nov 15 09:19 b -> a
ringding% cd a
ringding% find -type f
./f1
./f2
./f3
ringding% cd ../b
ringding% find -type f
./f1
./f2
./f3
ringding%

itchy% uname -a
Linux itchy.cs.cornell.edu 2.2.12-20smp #1 SMP Mon Sep 27 10:34:45 EDT
1999 i686 unknown
itchy% find --version
GNU find version 4.1
itchy% ls -ld a b
drwxr-sr-x   2 stodghil stodghil      512 Nov 15 09:19 a
lrwxrwxrwx   1 stodghil stodghil        1 Nov 15 09:19 b -> a
itchy% cd a
itchy% find -type f
./f1
./f2
./f3
itchy% cd ../b
itchy% find -type f
./f1
./f2
./f3
itchy%

unfolding% uname -a
IRIX64 unfolding 6.5 04151556 IP30
unfolding% find --version
GNU find version 4.1
unfolding% ls -ld a b
drwxr-xr-x    2 stodghil 8274        2048 Nov 15 09:39 a
lrwxr-xr-x    1 stodghil 6007           1 Nov 15 09:39 b -> a
unfolding% cd a
unfolding% find -type f
./f1
./f2
./f3
unfolding% cd ../b
unfolding% find -type f
./f1
./f2
./f3
unfolding%

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