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Subject: Re: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote:
> >One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partitio=
n)
> >involves upgrades.  I changed the symlink for ksh.exe -> pdksh.exe to a =
hard
> >link.  When an new version of pdksh was installed, it resulted in two non
> >linked files.  I had the new version as psksh.exe and the old version as
> >ksh.exe.
>=20
> Huh.  I wonder why that happened.  I would expect setup.exe to just
> overwrite one file, resulting in the change being reflected in the
> linked copy.
>=20
> I'm no longer familiar enough with setup's internals to say for sure
> if that is what happening but it does appear that the file is being
> deleted.  That behavior could probably be changed with an appropriate
> PTC.

Uninstall + install is the setup process.

To fix it is possible... but not trivial.

Rob
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