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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:55:21 -0500
To: "Primitive Guy" <efficacy AT my-deja DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Can't see symlink with ls
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At 04:38 PM 3/19/2001, Primitive Guy wrote:
>I can create a symlink with ln -s to create a symbolic link to an existing windows directory.  
>
>I can also cd to the link and do an ls.  
>
>I can't see the symbolic directory name when I do ls from the directory where I created the link.
>
>home $ls
>home $
>home $ ln -s C:/dev /dev
>home $ ls
>home $
>home $ cd dev
>dev  $


Send the output of cygcheck ls, cygcheck ln, and cygcheck -s -r -v to the list.
Also, repeat the same test in some subdirectory and don't use /dev, just to 
make sure you don't have a conflict somewhere.

Thanks,



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