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Re: cygport dropping *.exe links
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:52:10 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygport dropping *.exe links
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On 15/08/2014 19:02, Eric Blake wrote:
On 08/15/2014 09:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Aug 15 16:47, Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 15/08/2014 13:26, Marco Atzeri wrote:
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
Looks like a bug in coreutils 8.23. This works fine in coreutils-8.15.
Eric?
Yep, I'm investigating. :(
Any news ?
It hit me again on cyport last update and I was forced to re-implement
a workaround patch.
Marco
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