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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:31:20 -0500
To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: New symlinks
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At 11:02 AM 2/27/2001, you wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > 
> > I've finally taken the time to play with the new symlinks.  I like them!
> > 
> > However, I noticed that when I do this:
> > 
> > ln -s bar foo
> > cat foo.lnk
> > 
> > I get the contents of bar.
> > 
> > Should I?  Or should I get a "file not found"?  Or should I get
> > the contents of foo?
> > 
>
>I would expect "file not found".  I had reported and Corinna made
>changes but I haven't had the time to test them something similar.  I
>would also expect that `ln -s bar foo.lnk' to physically produce
>foo.lnk.lnk.
>
>
> > This is somewhat analogous to cygwin's behavior with .exe in some
> > situations but I'm not sure that we should ever expose the fact that a
> > symlink now has a .lnk extension to the user.
> > 
> > Comments?
> > 
>
>I agree.


Sorry for the "me too" but I thought its important to "weigh in" as well.



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