Re: Re: Native symlinks troubles

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 14 14:32, LRN wrote:
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> On 17.06.2013 16:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Jun 17 08:43, ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐ ÐÐÐÐÐÐ wrote:
> >> This simple example illustrate problem with using native symlinks.
> >>
> >> $ export CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict
> >>
> >> $ mkdir bld && mkdir source && touch source/srcfile && ln -s
> >> ../source/srcfile bld/bldfile
> >>
> >> $ ls -l bld
> >> total 0
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 alexey None 10 Jun 17 08:29 bldfile -> ce/srcfile
> > 
> > Thanks for the report.  I applied a patch which should fix this issue.
> > 
> > I'm just uploading a new developer snapshot 2013-06-17 to
> > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/, as well as a new 64 bit Cygwin test
> > release 1.7.21-4.  Please give one of them a try.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Corinna
> > 
> 
> Try this (with CYGWIN=winsymlinks:nativestrict):
> $ mkdir zoo
> $ touch zoo/foo
> $ ln -s zoo/foo zoo.x
> $ ls -l zoo.x
> 
> expected result:
> lrwxrwxrwx X YYYY ZZZZ AA BBB CC HH:MM zoo.x -> zoo/foo
> 
> actual result:
> lrwxrwxrwx X YYYY ZZZZ AA BBB CC HH:MM zoo.x -> foo
> 
> happens at least when name (minus extension) of the symlink is the same
> as the name of the first component (i.e. directory name) of the target.

Thanks for the report.  I applied a patch.


Corinna

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