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Re: Fun with symlinks?
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:17:25PM -0700, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> Fine, so far. Now, suppose you got a notice that a new Bash was uploaded
> to the cygwin release area. So, you fire up 'setup' and tell it to
> upgrade Bash. Now, start Bash. Notice your changes don't show up anymore.
> Now, do an 'ls -al /etc/pro*'
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 386 May 30 19:08 /etc/profile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 386 May 30 19:08 /etc/profile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 386 May 14 23:21 /etc/profile.orig
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 525 May 22 13:06 /etc/profile.pac
>
> Notice that there are *two* files named 'profile'. Now, one has to be a
> real file, and one has to be the symlink. The access rules seem to favor
> the real file, so the symlink is, apparently, ignored. But, this
That's a problem of setup.exe which doesn't understand that there's
a symlink of the Windows shortcut type (*.lnk) is in the way.
Setup should actually remove the symlink when creating the real
file.
Corinna
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