From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Problem with symlinks?
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:23:30 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1000501115738.9191I-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at May 01, 2000 11:58:17 AM
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Eli said:
> On Mon, 1 May 2000, Prashant TR wrote:
> 
> > > > Possibly, there's a bug in ln?
> > > 
> > > No, this is how hard links work. It's impossible to make hard links
> > > across different partitions.
> > > 
> > > You probably want "ln -s" which makes symbolic links, which are
> > > allowed to cross partition boundaries.
> > 
> > Both ln and ln -s don't work. I just tried this
> > ln -s d:/djgpp/files/cpu.c c:/test/xyz and it still fails.
> 
> That's because "ln -s" only works on executable files, and only if
> the source and destination are in the same directory.

Oh, sorry! I thought you were talking about Laurynas' full support for
symlinks.


Pärt, Passio,

							MartinS