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Re: Fun with symlinks?
- From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>
- To: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor at fruitbat dot org>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: Fun with symlinks?
- Organization: Syntrex, Inc.
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206261845460.17279-100000@gremlin.fruitbat.org>
- Reply-to: Pavel Tsekov <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hello Peter,
Thursday, June 27, 2002, 7:17:25 AM, you wrote:
[snip]
PAC> Fine, so far. Now, suppose you got a notice that a new Bash was uploaded
PAC> to the cygwin release area. So, you fire up 'setup' and tell it to
PAC> upgrade Bash. Now, start Bash. Notice your changes don't show up anymore.
PAC> Now, do an 'ls -al /etc/pro*'
PAC> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 386 May 30 19:08 /etc/profile
PAC> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administ None 386 May 30 19:08 /etc/profile
This is not real :) If you go to the /etc directory from a windows
command prompt and type 'dir' you will see:
profile
profile.lnk
The second one is your link and it is compatible with the windows type
shortcuts.
I know there is a way, in terms of a flag in the CYGWIN variable, to
control the type of symlinks which cygwin creates, but I don't
remember the details :( You can check the user's guide though.
I agree that the setup.exe behaviour in this case maybe needs an
improvement.
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