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bug: hard links to soft links do not work
- From: Sam Steingold <sds at gnu dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 01 Aug 2002 14:19:11 -0400
- Subject: bug: hard links to soft links do not work
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
- Organization: disorganization
- Reply-to: sds at gnu dot org
cygwin does not handle hard and soft links together:
$ echo "foo" > foo
$ ln foo 1
$ cat 1
foo ; GOOD!
$ ln -s 1 2
$ cat 2
foo ; GOOD!
$ ln 2 3
$ cat 3
<some binary data instead of "foo">
$
I.e., hard links to soft links do not work.
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