* Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link
[not found] ` <20100412143922.GB28908@calimero.vinschen.de>
@ 2010-04-12 14:57 ` Paul Bibbings
2010-04-15 18:05 ` Warren Young
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From: Paul Bibbings @ 2010-04-12 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin-talk
Corinna Vinschen <corinna...@cygwin.com> writes:
> On Apr 12 15:15, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>> In the past I have used corutils' link without any problem. I can't
>> recall when I last did use it successfully, but certainly prior to
>> Cygwin 1.7. At the moment, however, link is not actually linking, but
>> appears rather to be creating a simple copy of the file linked to, as
>> the following illustrates (on Windows Vista):
>>
>> 14:57:11 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $cp /usr/bin/zoo.exe zoo.exe
>>
>> 14:57:37 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $link zoo.exe zoo_link
>>
>> 14:57:54 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
>> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $ls -l
>> total 128
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo.exe
>> -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo_link.exe
>
> Looks exactly as expected. Notice the link count. if you us `ls -li'
> you will also see that both directory entries have the same inode number,
> so they are referring to the same file. What's your problem again?
Only my ignorance, it seems! I promise I won't post again until I've
served my penance. How long is it, again, in the sin bin for
stoopidity? :-)
Regards
Paul Bibbings
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* Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link
2010-04-12 14:57 ` link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link Paul Bibbings
@ 2010-04-15 18:05 ` Warren Young
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From: Warren Young @ 2010-04-15 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List
On 4/12/2010 8:57 AM, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>
> Only my ignorance, it seems! I promise I won't post again until I've
> served my penance. How long is it, again, in the sin bin for
> stoopidity? :-)
One week mucking out the hippo pen.
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