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Re: cygwin symlink? bug
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <t4bs at hotmail dot com>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:48:19 -0000
- Subject: Re: cygwin symlink? bug
- References: <000901c2d022$869cbe80$0200a8c0@ufo>
Trevor Forbes wrote:
> I am having problem with some of my build scripts and the following
> demonstrates the problem:
>
> If run the following (as a script) I get -- /tmp/foo/bar
> # !/bin/bash
Are you sure? I can reproduce your results only if I change the shebang to
/bin/sh.
> cd /tmp; mkdir -p foo/bar; ln -f -s foo/bar bar; cd bar; pwd; cd ..
>
> If I type the line in a shell then I get what I expected -- /tmp/bar
>
> I am using cygwin-1.3.20-1 but do not I think it is a new feature.
>
> Is my logic correct?
IIRC, Linux does this too - but I'm not easily able to test that at the
moment.
Max.
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