From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: "Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001115111109.B7893@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001115152828.13322.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com>
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 07:28:28AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi.tuura@cern.ch> wrote:
>> > Find doesn't dereference symbolic links unless you tell it to.
>>
>> Yes, but surely it should follow the links to the *current* directory?
>
>Since the directory is a symbolic link then the leaf (i.e.: the '.' directory)
>is a symbolic link. Therefore find doesn't dereference it and reports nothing
>unless you tell it to -follow the symbolic link.
This is probably different than most, if not all, UNIXes. As I've said in the
past there are some problems with the way cygwin currently dereferences symbolic
links but I have no plans with respect to the current directory on fixing them
anytime soon.
cgf
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-15 7:28 Earnie Boyd
2000-11-15 8:11 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2000-11-17 5:55 ` David Starks-Browning
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2000-12-21 22:41 Philip Sainty
2000-12-22 1:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-11-15 6:59 Earnie Boyd
2000-11-15 6:51 Paul Stodghill
2000-11-15 6:35 Earnie Boyd
2000-11-15 7:14 ` Lassi A. Tuura
2000-11-15 6:19 Paul Stodghill
2000-11-15 7:20 ` Egor Duda
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