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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:35:46 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [bug] fileutils: ln --target-directory with just one target fails - cygcheck-svr.out [1/1]
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:43:56PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>$ ls -l dir1
>$ ln -fs --target-directory=dir1 ../test.txt
>ln: `dir1/.': cannot overwrite directory
>$ ls -l dir1
>total 0
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 ASchulma None           11 Oct 14 16:42 test.txt -> 
>../test.txt
>
>What seems to happen here is that when ln --target-directory is given 
>only one target file (here test.txt), it works on the first one, then 
>'sees' . as a second target.
>
>Who is the Cygwin maintainer of fileutils?  I can't find any Cygwin doc 
>files for it.  Should I submit this bug upstream?

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00513.html

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