Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:40:15 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Creating a symlink to current directory does not display with ls as expected Message-ID: <20050622004015.GA28152@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <062120052335 DOT 15545 DOT 42B8A43E0006594700003CB922073000330A050E040D0C079D0A AT comcast DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <062120052335.15545.42B8A43E0006594700003CB922073000330A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:35:26PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I have a question >> about how ls on cygwin displays a symlink pointing to the current >> directory. > >Yep, this is the right place. > >> >> When I do the following: >> >> # cd ~ >> # ln -s here . >> # ls -l here >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 gene.sally mkgroup 1 Jun 21 16:51 here -> >> >> I'm expecting the dereference to the symlink to display here -> . as >> this is the behavior on Linux. >> >> On cygwin, it appears that the "." does not display in the directory >> listing; however, the symlink works as expected, so this appears to me a >> cosmetic error. >> > >I confirmed it, and it is weird (Ditto for "ln -s .. parent"). I'll >investigate it further when I have more time, to see whether the fault >lies in ls (part of coreutils) or is common to all cygwin programs >using lstat. The link is properly showing up as size 1, so it seems >like the `.' should be printing. That is indeed strange but I don't think it's a coreutils bug. It looks like a cygwin bug to me. If I call 'readlink' on the "here" symlink in perl, it returns nothing. Sigh. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/