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From: "Gary R Van Sickle" <tiberius AT braemarinc DOT com>
To: "Cygwin Mailing List \(E-mail\)" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: bug: hard links to soft links do not work
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 18:17:33 -0500
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> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:21:43PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > >
> > >actually, this is very easy:
> > >
> > >(defmethod hard-link :around (from to)
> > >  (if (symbolic-link-p to)
> > >      (symbolic-link from (resolve-symbolic-link to))
> > >      (call-next-method)))
> > >
> > >i.e., when the target is a symlink, you symlink to its target.
> >
> > Is that *lisp* code?  This makes it easy because...?  I don't quite
> > follow.  Obviously anyone can conceive of some logic to make this fail
> > but without looking at the actual code in question it isn't going to
> > be too useful.
>
> the above is indeed CLOS code of how link() should actually be
> implemented in the cygwin libc.

Whoah, now hang on guys, nobody told me we were switching to all-Lisp
all-the-time.  You can just count me *out*.  I don't go for all that
overparenthetical jive.  ;-)

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Braemar Inc.
11481 Rupp Dr.
Burnsville, MN 55337


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