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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:22:51 +0200
From: "Lawrence Mayer" <lawmaya AT gmx DOT com>
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Subject: Ln can't hard link into named directory
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Ln can't hard link into named directory.

e.g.

Ln ... TARGET... DIRECTORY (3rd form)

and

ln ... -t DIRECTORY TARGET...  (4th form)

both fail when DIRECTORY is named (but appear to work when DIRECTORY = '.' (current directory))

returning error message

'ln: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.' when TARGET is named file

or

'ln: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.' when TARGET is '*' (wildcard).


I am running cygwin 1.7.17-1 and coreutils 8.15-1, calling above commands from cmd.exe 5.2.3790.3959 on Windows Server 2003 sp2 x32.

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