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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:00:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-2
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On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:40:57PM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> >*grumble* Hmm...  I suspect this is really a Setup issue.  The binary
> >is stored in the tar as a hardlink to the versioned name.  If you
> >manually unpack it, with tar, it does the right thing.  On an NTFS
> >volume, it makes it a hardlink to the real file (ie: link count = 2).
> >On a FAT volume, it duplicates the file's contents (ie: link count =
> >1).  It appears setup isn't quite handling it correctly for your
> >configuration.  We'd have to get detailed info about your config.  Are
> >you using the latest setup.exe, btw?  If not, try a snap-shot first.
> >It's as simple a un-installing and re-install zsh to test.
>
> Again, setup.exe does not understand hard links.  So if you use a hard
> link in your tar file, you will not get a hard link when setup.exe
> installs it.

I know you've said that, but, that doesn't account for what I see when I
install zsh, via setup.  It does duplicate the file:

E:\cygwin\bin>ls -al zs*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Administ     6656 Apr  3 23:12 zsh-4.2.0.exe
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ Administ     6656 Apr  7 19:41 zsh.exe

This is from a freshly installed zsh after I de-installed and manually
removed all traces for zsh from the system.  No, I haven't looked into
how setup is doing this, and no, I can't explain why it works for me, but
not zapper.  I'm hoping getting some info from zzapper's test will shed
light on the subject.

> cgf

-- 
Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
	"Cats are just autistic Dogs" -- Dr. Tony Attwood

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