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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: cygport dropping  *.exe links
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140815151619.GK28562@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EE1D70.6080808@gmail.com>

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On Aug 15 16:47, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> On 15/08/2014 13:26, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> >Hi Yaakov,
> >I just noted a strange effect
> >
> 
> >Is it possible that latest binutils update is fooling cygport ?
> >In the past, it seems they were renamed ( mpirun.exe to mpirun)
> >
> 
> looking further, it seems not a cygport issue at all
> 
> $ touch a.exe
> $ ln -s a.exe b.exe
>  $ ls -l
> total 1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 marco Administrators 0 Aug 15 16:41 a.exe
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco Administrators 5 Aug 15 16:41 b.exe -> a.exe
> 
> $ mv b.exe b
> $ ls -l
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 marco Administrators 0 Aug 15 16:41 a.exe

Looks like a bug in coreutils 8.23.  This works fine in coreutils-8.15.

Eric?


Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-15 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-15 11:26 Marco Atzeri
2014-08-15 14:47 ` Marco Atzeri
2014-08-15 15:16   ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-08-15 17:02     ` Eric Blake
2014-09-01  8:52       ` Marco Atzeri
2014-09-24  3:35     ` Eric Blake
2014-10-08 12:55       ` Corinna Vinschen

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