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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 15:21:04 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bug: hard links to soft links do not work
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:35:43PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> * In message <20020801182416 DOT GD26315 AT redhat DOT com>
>> * On the subject of "Re: bug: hard links to soft links do not work"
>> * Sent on Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:24:16 -0400
>> * Honorable Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> writes:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:19:11PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> >cygwin does not handle hard and soft links together:
>> >
>> >$ echo "foo" > foo
>> >$ ln foo 1
>> >$ cat 1
>> >foo                             ; GOOD!
>> >$ ln -s 1 2
>> >$ cat 2
>> >foo                             ; GOOD!
>> >$ ln 2 3
>> >$ cat 3
>> ><some binary data instead of "foo">
>> >$
>> >
>> >I.e., hard links to soft links do not work.
>> 
>> Funny, when I try this on linux, I get:
>> 
>>   % ln 2 3
>>   ln: `2': warning: making a hard link to a symbolic link is not portable
>
>indeed - but it works on linux as expected.
>cygwin should either barf of DTRT.
>I take your reply to mean that this is not getting changed.

You can take almost any reply that I make as "Patches gratefully
accepted."

cgf

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