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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 15:40:07 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic linkfunctionality
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Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> John Paulson wrote:
> >
> >    I like the proposal to unify Windows and Cygwin symlinks.  However, one
> > minor problem can occur: under *nix I can have files with the extension
> > .lnk, with no special semantics associated with it.  I can tar up a directory
> > containing .lnk files on my *nix box and untar them on my cygwin box.  What
> > happens to those files with the .lnk extension?  I think this will be another
> > bit of Windows-vs-the-world festivity (as occurred with one source tarball
> > recently which had a directory named "AUX").
> >
> >    Even with that potential hassle, unification is the correct choice.
> >
> 
> Just for kicks, after reading this post, I did `touch foo.lnk' and have
> a circular reference to foo.lnk.  The directory listing actually shows
> the filename as foo.lnk.
> 
> I then decided to `cat << EOF > abc.lnk' and actually put data in the
> file. This time the listing doesn't show a circular reference and cat
> abc.lnk gives me the contents of the file.
> 

I then said, "Hmm... What'll happen if I `ln -s foo.lnk bar.lnk'?"  So
I, did just that and the listing show bar -> foo.lnk.  I was hoping to
see bar.lnk in the listing.  Both `cat bar' and `cat bar.lnk' give the
contents of foo.lnk.

Earnie.

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