On 2013-04-20, Arthur Tu wrote:
After I did this:
$ ln -s Repos/bugn/ Projects/
A file named `bugn` is created under Projects,
as it is said in the cygwin documentation.
However, cygwin does recognise `bugn` as a link file,
while can't determine where it point to.
I draged the file to notepad.exe, and see following text:
!<symlink>ïî e p o s / b u g n /
$ cygcheck -f /bin/ln.exe
coreutils-8.15-1
I am sure `ln -s some_directory` used to work well on my computer.
I tested hard link or soft link of the file, it worked well.
Help.
This is not a Cygwin problem. Linux, for example, behaves the same.
What you did was create a symbolic link in Projects to the file
named Repos/bugn, a relative path name. Any reference to
Projects/bugn is resolved to Projects/Repos/bugn. This is correct,
but not what you intended.
One alternative would be
$ ln -s ../Repos/bugn/ Projects/
Another would be
$ ln -s $PWD/Repos/bugn/ Projects/
Which one is better depends on your environment and on what you're
trying to achieve.
Regards,
Gary
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