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Re: New symlinks
- To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: New symlinks
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:31:20 -0500
- References: <20010227002258.A8991@redhat.com>
At 11:02 AM 2/27/2001, you wrote:
>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.
Sorry for the "me too" but I thought its important to "weigh in" as well.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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