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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:59:49 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
To: Paul Stodghill <stodghil AT cs DOT cornell DOT edu>,
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--- Paul  Stodghill <stodghil AT cs DOT cornell DOT edu> wrote:
> > 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.
> 

What does POSIX have to say about it?  How about ANSI?  What about the Single
UNIX Specification?

If you can't find specific documentation then any behaviour is correct.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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