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Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link
- From: Paul Bibbings <paul dot bibbings at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:57:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link
- References: <87mxx8zric.fsf@gmail.com> <20100412143922.GB28908@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Corinna Vinschen <corinna...@cygwin.com> writes:
> On Apr 12 15:15, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>> In the past I have used corutils' link without any problem. I can't
>> recall when I last did use it successfully, but certainly prior to
>> Cygwin 1.7. At the moment, however, link is not actually linking, but
>> appears rather to be creating a simple copy of the file linked to, as
>> the following illustrates (on Windows Vista):
>>
>> 14:57:11 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $cp /usr/bin/zoo.exe zoo.exe
>>
>> 14:57:37 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $link zoo.exe zoo_link
>>
>> 14:57:54 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $ls -l
>> total 128
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo.exe
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo_link.exe
>
> Looks exactly as expected. Notice the link count. if you us `ls -li'
> you will also see that both directory entries have the same inode number,
> so they are referring to the same file. What's your problem again?
Only my ignorance, it seems! I promise I won't post again until I've
served my penance. How long is it, again, in the sin bin for
stoopidity? :-)
Regards
Paul Bibbings