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Re: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna at vinschen dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:40:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)
- References: <BAY19-F32E5FEED22A0EE72A4B6A3B5410@phx.gbl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 25 09:37, Karl M wrote:
> Sometimes doing a [ -f foo ]; will show a false true while the symlink is
> being created. You can see this by opening two bash shells and executing
Creating symlinks is not an atomic process in Cygwin. It requires
several OS calls to create a symlink.
Corinna
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