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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Executable links?
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:38:48 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of chris
> Sent: 11 May 2004 21:21

> 4) Replace links to executables with a very small executable 
> which does 
> the linking process. I've been experimenting a little with 
> this and it 
> doesn't seem like a bad idea, except a) it involves hacking where you 
> want to link to into the executable (not too bad), b) the 
> shortcut is no 
> longer reckonised by ls / ln / etc (would this be hard to 
> fix?) and c) I 
> can't make a cygwin executable <10kish (this is still not that large, 
> and I'm sure someone better than me could make it smaller.
> 
> Any comments / suggestions?

4) seems to me not worth the effort.  It works for executables but isn't any
use for any other filetype at all; it only works for executing those
executables, not for reading them as ordinary files or ls'ing or rm'ing
them; it seems like a bad kludge that introduces a lot of complications in
exchange for which it only solves one limited case of one limited aspect of
the general problem.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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