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RE: New symlinks.
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: New symlinks.
- From: "Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej dot Borsenkow at mow dot siemens dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 20:40:48 +0300
> >I think it's correct behaviour. Cygwin doesn't show the .lnk
> >suffix by itself but nevertheless, to return a `file not found'
> >on `ls foo.lnk' wouldn't be correct. It's simply the truth:
> >The file `foo.lnk' exists and is a symlink.
>
> Again, it is surprising behavior. Such a file would not exist on UNIX.
> I personally think that we should hide implementation details like
> "Oh yeah, we added a .lnk extension to all of our symbolic links"
> from the user. There is no reason for them to know or care about
> this detail.
>
Hmm ... how should ``ls -L'' and lstat() behave then? Should they show just
``foo'' or ``foo.lnk''? (No, I do not know the answer)
-andrej
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