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Re: symbolic link untar issue
Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> No, it is not an old-style link, because it has the .lnk suffix when
> viewed via Windows. However, it is not a link that would normally be
> created by the current coreutils, since I have added some .exe magic into
> ln when symlinking against existing .exes:
>From this I guess that the .exe magic is currently in the code for each
program that might create a symlink. Is there any way that the .exe magic
could be moved to inside the symlink() function call, so that it automatically
works for all programs that create symlinks? Or does that introduce other
problems?
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Eric Backus
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