From: cyg Simple <cygsimple@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Stumbled upon relative name resolution across symlinks
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <818ea723-d84a-6751-a3a2-8337aa0b12ba@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <123348672.20181102013908@yandex.ru>
On 11/1/2018 6:39 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
>
> $ pwd
> /home/anrdaemon/Documents/NIX/CA-tutorial/test
>
> $ ls -ld bin ca-profile
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 anrdaemon None 61 Гîÿ 2 01:15 bin -> /home/anrdaemon/Documents/NIX/CA-tutorial/svn-working/scripts
> -rwx--x--x 1 anrdaemon None 588 äåê 24 2017 ca-profile
>
> $ cat bin/../ca-profile
> cat: bin/../ca-profile: No such file or directory
>
Try ls `bin/../`
You'll see a listing of
/home/anrdaemon/Documents/NIX/CA-tutorial/svn-working/.
> $ cat $( realpath -Le "bin/../ca-profile" )
> # @version $Id: ca-profile 82 2014-02-08 05:24:12Z anrdaemon $
> ...
>
> In simpler words, the bin directory is symlinked from elsewhere.
> realpath -Le resolves correctly, but all other filesystem functions fail.
>
> I vaguely recall that there was some discussion on the matter, but search
> returns too many results, can't read them all.
> My question, basically: is this expected way of things?
The answer is yes it is expected and works the same on Linux.
> If so, I'd just workaround it. Sad but doable.
Don't be sad just do it. ;p
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2018-11-01 22:50 Andrey Repin
2018-11-02 12:15 ` Ken Brown
2018-11-02 14:15 ` cyg Simple [this message]
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