From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13798 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2014 08:52:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13757 invoked by uid 89); 1 Sep 2014 08:52:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-we0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-we0-f174.google.com) (74.125.82.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:52:16 +0000 Received: by mail-we0-f174.google.com with SMTP id u57so5098359wes.33 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 01:52:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.180.10.230 with SMTP id l6mr3636507wib.62.1409561532964; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 01:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.21.188.197] ([149.6.156.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id mz16sm22643357wic.13.2014.09.01.01.52.11 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Sep 2014 01:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <540433BA.40106@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:52:00 -0000 From: Marco Atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygport dropping *.exe links References: <53EDEE67.6070501@gmail.com> <53EE1D70.6080808@gmail.com> <20140815151619.GK28562@calimero.vinschen.de> <53EE3D1B.5090200@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <53EE3D1B.5090200@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-09/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 On 15/08/2014 19:02, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/15/2014 09:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Aug 15 16:47, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>> On 15/08/2014 13:26, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>> 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? > > Yep, I'm investigating. :( > Any news ? It hit me again on cyport last update and I was forced to re-implement a workaround patch. Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple