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Problem with symbolic links in b18


Hi,
 
Here's a problem I encountered with symbolic links:
 
1. Assume you have a DOS executable in directory c:\xxx called yyy.exe.
2. Assume bash is run from directory c:\zzz. 
3. Enter bash 
4. Do "ln -s c:\xxx\yyy.exe yyy.exe". 
5. Verify that there's a file "yyy.exe" in c:\zzz. 
6. Run yyy.exe from bash - everything works fine. 
7. Now exit bash. 
8. Run yyy.exe. You get a window telling you that the program has performed an illegal operation. 
    Opening the details button says that the program tried to execute an illegal instruction
    at 1F00:8AC3. 
 
Cheers,
Dave 
 

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