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From: "John Vincent" <jpv50 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: bug: hard links to soft links do not work
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:04:54 +0000
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X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2002 10:04:54.0761 (UTC) FILETIME=[0CBE4590:01C23A0C]

Hi,

I wonder if you could explain in a little more detail what
your patch does? Thanks.

/John Vincent.

>I've checked in a patch.  What I've done isn't consistent with linux but
>at least it does something sensible now:
>
>   j:\tmp>touch x
>   j:\tmp>ln -s x y
>   j:\tmp>ln y z
>   j:\tmp>ls -l ?
>   -rw-rw-rw-    2 cgf      None            0 Aug  1 19:56 x
>   lrwxrwxrwx    1 cgf      None           82 Aug  1 19:56 y -> x
>   -rw-rw-rw-    2 cgf      None            0 Aug  1 19:56 z
>



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