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RE: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
- To: Paul Stodghill <stodghil at cs dot cornell dot edu>, "Cygwin Mailing List \(E-mail\)" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 06:59:49 -0800 (PST)
--- Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
> > Find doesn't dereference symbolic links unless you tell it
> > to. The command
> > find -follow -type f
> > would display the files you want displayed.
>
> The way that Cygwin handles CWD=='.' when '.' is a symlink seems to be
> different from Solaris, Linux and IRIS. I tried both NFS and local
> disks.
>
What does POSIX have to say about it? How about ANSI? What about the Single
UNIX Specification?
If you can't find specific documentation then any behaviour is correct.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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