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Re: 1.5.19+: symlink bug
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 15:06:49 +0000
- Subject: Re: 1.5.19+: symlink bug
> > Creating links with the same name, but with and without a .exe extension
> > succeeds, but the one with no extension is later ignored. Here's a
> > minimal example:
> >
> Did you try this with the latest coreutils 5.93-3?
I just reproduced with stock cygwin 1.5.19 and coreutils 5.93-3. The
behavior is the same, and it is cygwin doing it. It appears that when
both TESTLINK.lnk and TESTLINK.exe.lnk exist, lstat("TESTLINK")
is picking up the contents of TESTLINK.exe.lnk rather than the
contents of TESTLINK.lnk.
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Eric Blake
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