cygport dropping *.exe links

[Marco Atzeri]

On 15/08/2014 13:26, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi Yaakov,
> I just noted a strange effect
>

> Is it possible that latest binutils update is fooling cygport ?
> In the past, it seems they were renamed ( mpirun.exe to mpirun)
>

looking further, it seems not a cygport issue at all

$ touch a.exe
$ ln -s a.exe b.exe
  $ ls -l
total 1
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco Administrators 0 Aug 15 16:41 a.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco Administrators 5 Aug 15 16:41 b.exe -> a.exe

$ mv b.exe b
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 marco Administrators 0 Aug 15 16:41 a.exe


$ uname -svr
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:03

Marco

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