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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:39:53 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: New symlinks.
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In-Reply-To: <20010228232954.A344@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from cygwin@cygwin.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:29:54PM +0100

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:29:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Heribert Dahms wrote:
>> Yeah, and what should
>> 	find . | xargs ls -ld
>> find implicitly and write explicitly?
>
>It should implicitely find foo and explicitely write `foo'
>since that is given from find to xargs.
>
>My point is simply iff somebody asks for foo.lnk _knowingly_
>Cygwin shouldn't react with `File not found'. That's the true
>surprise IMO.

That is the issue that I was raising initially.  We can agree to
disagree on this fact.  It seems that people are currently speculating
wildly without actually trying the current implementation.

cgf

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