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Date: 23 Jul 2001 17:09:20 -0400
Message-ID: <20010723210920.31051.qmail@lizard.curl.com>
From: Jonathan Kamens <jik AT curl DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Weird problem with relative symbolic links

With a cygwin1.dll built from the current CVS repository:

I have a symbolic link named "scratch" in my root directory, pointing
at "d/scratch".  When I'm not in the root directory, I can't type "ls
/scratch/jik" and see the contents of /d/scratch/jik -- instead, I see
"/scratch/jik: No such file or directory".  If I "cd /" and run the
command again, it works.

The obvious workaround is to change the link to point to "/d/scratch"
instead of "d/scratch", which I've done.  But still, there appears to
be something broken in this area in the repository which wasn't broken
in 1.1.8.

Thanks,

(Is my understanding correct that problems in the current CVS
repository which don't exist in the "stable" release should be sent
here rather than to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com?)

  jik