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New symlinks
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: New symlinks
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:22:58 -0500
- Reply-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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?
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?
cgf
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