x86_64 Cygwin 1.7.29: possible bug to trace symlink (Win7)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Apr 15 09:29:00 GMT 2014


On Apr 15 01:07, 卜勇华 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that cygwin cannot follow the Windows native symlink correctly.
> set CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict
> 
> Steps to re-produce:
> 1. echo test > test.txt
> 2. mkdir dest
> 3. cd dest
> 4. ln -s ../test.txt test.txt
> 5. cd ..
> 6. mkdir src
> 7. cd src
> 8. ln -s ../dest dest
> 9. cd ..
> 10. cat src/dest/test.txt
>   cat cannot find the file of "test.txt".

I can't reproduce this.  It works fine for me in bash, tcsh, and even
in CMD.exe under Cygwin 1.7.29.


Corinna

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