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From: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
In-Reply-To: <20041223093516.GB317@cygbert.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:35:16 +0100")
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Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:17:35 -0500
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> * Corinna Vinschen <pbevaan-pltjva AT pltjva DOT pbz> [2004-12-23 10:35:16 +0100]:
>
>> My temporary fix for my developers is to remove coreutils `link' from
>> our systems,

that's what I had to do too.

>> but if it is reinstalled every time coreutils is
>> upgraded, this will cause an ongoing problem.

indeed.

moving the woe32 directory forward in PATH appears to be the only
"solution" (you never know what important unix commands will be shadowed)

> The link tool is installed by default on Linux as well.

what does it do that ln(1) does not?
alas, both ln(1) and link(1) are in SUS,
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/ln.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/link.html
so we are stuck here.

> I guess you read my announcement?

the announcement did not mention link(1).
or you mean that you are willing to surrender maintainership?

Thanks.

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