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From: Matt <matt AT use DOT net>
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Subject: Re: symblinks problem
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Date: 	Mon, 24 Apr 2000 12:41:34 -0700

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Chris Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 02:23:30AM -0700, Matt wrote:
> >On the 4/23/2000 snapshot, there seems to be inconsistency in following
> >symblinks.
> >
> >In /home/src/i586-pc-cygwin/winsup, there is a symblink from configure.in
> >to ../.././winsup/configure.in . When I 'vi configure.in' while the
> >working directory is /home/sec/i586-pc-cygwin/winsup , it doesn't follow
> >the symblink to the original file, it instead shows me the contents of the
> >symblink: !<symlink>../.././winsup/configure.in
> >
> >An strace log is attached ('bash -c "vi configure.in"', where the cwd is
> >the one mentioned above).
> 
> As far as I can tell from the strace, you aren't running a cygwin version
> of 'vi'.

This is really weird, the cygwin installer didn't appear to install it's
own vi anywhere; that's not supposed to happen, is it? I'll wipe this
installation and try the newsetup.exe, assuming that vi is supposed to be
installed :)

Sorry for the false alarm, I didn't think I had another vi on this system.
I'll try to be more observant next time.

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