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RE: Fun with symlinks?
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 21:44:35 +1000
- Subject: RE: Fun with symlinks?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen
> Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2002 9:41 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Fun with symlinks?
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:17:12PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
> > To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 7:12 PM
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Hmm, I thought we had patched setup to handle this. mmm.
>
> I've proposed a patch on cygwin-apps months ago but somehow it didn't
> make it into the sources. Or did it make it into the sources but
> didn't survive for some reason? I don't remember...
2002-01-15 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* io_stream.cc (io_stream::gets): Eliminate trailing new line
chars.
* package_meta.cc (packagemeta::uninstall): Check for additional
Windows shortcut. Unset R/O file attribute before trying to
delete
file.
Rob.
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