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Creating a symlink to current directory does not display with ls as expected


Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I have a question
about how ls on cygwin displays a symlink pointing to the current
directory. 

When I do the following:

# cd ~
# ln -s here . 
# ls -l here
lrwxrwxrwx  1 gene.sally mkgroup      1 Jun 21 16:51 here ->

I'm expecting the dereference to the symlink to display here -> . as
this is the behavior on Linux.

On cygwin, it appears that the "." does not display in the directory
listing; however, the symlink works as expected, so this appears to me a
cosmetic error.

Is this the expected behavior for ls in cygwin for this type of symlink?

Thanks,
gene

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