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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:40:59 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)
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On Mar 25 09:37, Karl M wrote:
> Sometimes doing a [ -f foo ]; will show a false true while the symlink is 
> being created. You can see this by opening two bash shells and executing

Creating symlinks is not an atomic process in Cygwin.  It requires
several OS calls to create a symlink.


Corinna

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