changes in symbolic links
Eric Blake
eblake@redhat.com
Mon Mar 1 14:06:00 GMT 2010
According to Paul McFerrin on 3/1/2010 12:27 AM:
> Sometime within the past 1-2 years, the format of symbolic links must
> have changed. I keep finding broken links in my web pages. The
> directory bit is still set but the System attribute is not set anymore.
The release of cygwin 1.7.1 changed the format to accommodate UTF-8 filenames.
>
> If it is true that symbolic links did change, I would like to know which
> cygwin1.dll implemented the change and if this dll is still available.
Yes, cygwin 1.7.1 is still available.
> I want to write a tool to search for these mangled links and fix them.
find -L -type l
is one easy way to find broken symlinks.
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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