Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:59:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Mark E. wrote:

> How about altering symlink.c that if making a DJGPP-style soft link is 
> impossible but where a Unix style soft link would succeed, call link() to 
> try and make a hard link. Here's a patch that would do that:
> 
> *** src\libc\posix\unistd\symlink.c.orig	Tue Oct 28 14:22:54 1997
> --- src\libc\posix\unistd\symlink.c	Wed Mar 17 10:37:58 1999

The idea is okay (since I also suggested it ;-), but please submit 
patches with forward slashes, not backslashes.

Where's the part that handles the non-existing files, btw?