From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11277 invoked by alias); 12 Apr 2010 14:57:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 11260 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Apr 2010 14:57:32 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_RW,TW_WX,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:57:25 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O1L4j-0001Du-Jx for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:57:21 +0200 Received: from cpc1-chfd1-0-0-cust775.nott.cable.ntl.com ([86.15.147.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:57:21 +0200 Received: from paul.bibbings by cpc1-chfd1-0-0-cust775.nott.cable.ntl.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:57:21 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: Paul Bibbings Subject: Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87eiikzpkr.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87mxx8zric.fsf@gmail.com> <20100412143922.GB28908@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-q2/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen 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