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Re: bug: hard links to soft links do not work


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:19:11PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
>cygwin does not handle hard and soft links together:
>
>$ echo "foo" > foo
>$ ln foo 1
>$ cat 1
>foo                             ; GOOD!
>$ ln -s 1 2
>$ cat 2
>foo                             ; GOOD!
>$ ln 2 3
>$ cat 3
><some binary data instead of "foo">
>$
>
>I.e., hard links to soft links do not work.

Funny, when I try this on linux, I get:

  % ln 2 3
  ln: `2': warning: making a hard link to a symbolic link is not portable

cgf

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