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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:31:27 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Symbol link trouble ?
Message-ID: <20010425143127.R23753@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20010425135705.00d36990@ics.u-strasbg.fr>; from muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:09:48PM +0200

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:09:48PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:
> At 13:13 25/04/01 , vous avez écrit:
> >Could be a buffering technique of W95. I have just read the Microsoft
> >KB article Q128932 "How Windows 95 Resolves Shortcut Links" but it
> >doesn't obtain any additional information.
> 
>   Using strace seems to indicate that the file test.h.lnk is read!

Sure it's read. Cygwin doesn't see if the file is actually read or
if the file content is read from an already existing OS buffer.

> Should I send you the binary link file and the strace output.

Actually I have no hope to find something strange from the strace
but it doesn't hurt. Send the strace (not the link file which
is useless to me) as gzipped attachment to mailto:vinschen AT redhat DOT com.

Corinna

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