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Re: New symlinks
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: New symlinks
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: 2001年2月27日 11:02:06 -0500
- References: <20010227002258.A8991@redhat.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> I've finally taken the time to play with the new symlinks. I like them!
>
> However, I noticed that when I do this:
>
> ln -s bar foo
> cat foo.lnk
>
> I get the contents of bar.
>
> Should I? Or should I get a "file not found"? Or should I get
> the contents of foo?
>
I would expect "file not found". I had reported and Corinna made
changes but I haven't had the time to test them something similar. I
would also expect that `ln -s bar foo.lnk' to physically produce
foo.lnk.lnk.
> This is somewhat analogous to cygwin's behavior with .exe in some
> situations but I'm not sure that we should ever expose the fact that a
> symlink now has a .lnk extension to the user.
>
> Comments?
>
I agree.
Earnie.
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