Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Message-ID: <BF35D9C143BCCC4EB63181B67C9320C804DD1D@serv-075.icon-germany.local>
From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'Cliff Hones'" <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: New symlinks.
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:33:16 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0)
Content-Type: text/plain

Hi Cliff,

yes, and the other way around, since I never saw an *ix
where *.lnk has a special meaning, somebody may be
surprised now about inability to have a symlink foo -> bar
and a plain file foo.lnk in the same directory, which was
possible in earlier cygwin releases:

b20$  ln -s bar foo
b20$ >foo.lnk
b20$ ls -l
total 1
lrw-r--r--   1 0        everyone       14 Feb 27 23:25 foo -> bar
-rw-r--r--   1 0        everyone        0 Feb 27 23:25 foo.lnk

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Cliff Hones [SMTP:cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 27, 2001 19:41
> To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject:	Re: New symlinks.
> 
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]

> But Cygwin can never succeed in performing this kind of file mapping
> perfectly; there are already difficulties with mixed-case (no-one
> expects "touch foo; touch FOO; ls" to be Unix-consistent), and with
> the treatment of .exe files which unfortunately breaks many makefiles.
> 
> So maybe we are worrying too much about hiding the implementation.
> 
> Just a thought - if a Windows directory contains both foo (a plain file)
> and a foo.lnk shortcut, which should Cygwin open, stat etc. see?
> 

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple