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Re: Problem with symlink(2) (cygwin 1.3.9)


On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:17:06PM +0100, Benoit Perrin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed a problem with the symlink(2) API, when windows shorcuts are
> used to create the links.
> If a directory contains a regular file or a directory (let's say
> /foo/bar), when one uses the symlink(2) API to create a soft link with
> the same name:
> 
>  ret = symlink("/tmp/entry", "/foo/bar");
> 
> the function does not return an error (ret==-1, errno==EEXIST). This is
> because the node created has the real name "/foo/bar.lnk" and not
> "/foo/bar". But the visual result of this problem is that doing a 'ls'
> in "/foo" lists two entries with the same name, "/foo/bar".

Thanks for the report.  I've checked in a fix.

Corinna

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