Bug in ln / cygwin1.dll

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 02:13:16PM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>> >When I run 'make -f Makefile.cvs' with QT3, I find that ln segfaults
>trying
>> >to create a symlink. I've included the output of strace showing the
>problem,
>> >output of cygcheck and also the stackdump ln produces. I can reproduce
>this,
>> >so if you need any more information, please ask. The problem occurs with
>the
>> >latest Cygwin CVS.
>> >ln is 'ln (fileutils) 4.1'.
>> >cygwin is 'CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ADVENT02 1.3.11(0.52/3/2) 2002-05-03 15:18 i686
>> >unknown'
>>
>> You're using a locally built version of cygwin.  Please run it under gdb
>> and pinpoint where the problem is occurring.  You may find the techniques
>> in how-to-debug-cygwin.txt useful.
>
>This patch fixes the problem.

Why?

cgf