* RE: 1.5.19+: symlink bug
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@ 2006-02-03 15:17 ` Dave Korn
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From: Dave Korn @ 2006-02-03 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'confused? you will be after this weeks episode of SOAP dot
exe dot link'
On 03 February 2006 15:07, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> Creating links with the same name, but with and without a .exe extension
>>> succeeds, but the one with no extension is later ignored. Here's a
>>> minimal example:
>>>
>> Did you try this with the latest coreutils 5.93-3?
>
> I just reproduced with stock cygwin 1.5.19 and coreutils 5.93-3. The
> behavior is the same, and it is cygwin doing it. It appears that when
> both TESTLINK.lnk and TESTLINK.exe.lnk exist, lstat("TESTLINK")
> is picking up the contents of TESTLINK.exe.lnk rather than the
> contents of TESTLINK.lnk.
Whereas the desired behaviour, of course, would be for it to complain that it can't find TESTLINK.lnk.exe, yes? ;-P
cheers,
DaveK
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