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Re: New symlinks


On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:02:06AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> 
>> I've finally taken the time to play with the new symlinks.  I like them!
>> 
>> However, I noticed that when I do this:
>> 
>> ln -s bar foo
>> cat foo.lnk
>> 
>> I get the contents of bar.
>> 
>> Should I?  Or should I get a "file not found"?  Or should I get
>> the contents of foo?
>> 
>
>I would expect "file not found".  I had reported and Corinna made
>changes but I haven't had the time to test them something similar.  I
>would also expect that `ln -s bar foo.lnk' to physically produce
>foo.lnk.lnk.

Ditto.

cgf

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