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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:19:09 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Symlink handling changed in latest CVS
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This is a heads up so that hopefully this issue can be resolved before
1.3.19.  I just updated from CVS this morning and noticed that symlink
handling is different in at least one context:

    $ rxvt -e slogin localhost          # fails unless pwd = /usr/bin
    $ rxvt -e /usr/bin/slogin localhost # succeeds regardless of pwd

Note that slogin is a symlink:

    $ ls -l /usr/bin/slogin
    lrwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Domain U       20 Dec  3 08:28 /usr/bin/slogin -> ./ssh.exe

I did not have this problem with CVS from 2002/12/31.

Jason

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