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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:51:25 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Bad links, esp. /bin/csh -> tcsh
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On May 15 09:58, fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net wrote:
> Following (I think?) the recent update of tcsh the link
> 	/bin/csh -> tcsh
> points to a file that no longer exists. (Typing csh gives "bash: csh:
> command not found".)

This one http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJFFM.

> Because of the virtual creation of /usr/bin/ other links that don't work
> from /bin/, do work from /usr/bin/, and so are not I suppose strictly wrong.
> (Conversely the link /usr/bin/pidof -> ../sbin/killall5.exe doesn't work
> from /usr/bin/ but does work from /bin/.) Similarly the virtual creation of
> /usr/lib/ makes some things work that otherwise would fail.

At one point we should have made /usr/sbin a symlink to /sbin or vice
versa.  I'd rather see the sbin files in one place, too.


Corinna

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