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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] symlink regression
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On Sep 21 15:06, Eric Blake wrote:
> In cygwin 1.5, symlink("a",d) correctly failed with EEXIST regardless of 
> whether d was "dir", "dir/", or "dir/.".  But in 1.7, it is failing with ENOENT 
> for just "dir/", and failing a gnulib test as a result.  STC:
> 
> $ mkdir dir
> $ ln -sT nowhere dir/.
> ln: creating symbolic link `dir/.': File exists
> $ ln -sT nowhere dir/ 
> ln: creating symbolic link `dir/': No such file or directory

I reworked symlink's error handling so that in my testing I now get
the exact same error messages as on Linux:

  $ rm wqwqwq
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq/
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq/': No such file or directory
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq/.
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq/.': No such file or directory
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq/
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq/': File exists
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq/.
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq/.': No such file or directory
  $ touch nowhere
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq': File exists
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq/
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq/': File exists
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq/.
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq/.': Not a directory
  $ rm nowhere
  $ mkdir nowhere
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq': File exists
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq/.
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq/.': File exists
  $ ln -sT nowhere wqwqwq/
  ln: creating symbolic link `wqwqwq/': File exists

Can you please check against your testsuite?


Thanks,
Corinna

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