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Re: bugs in zip and bash


John Wiersba wrote:

> 4) zip -y and unzip (from Charles Wilsons cygutils site) are broken with
> respect to properly handling symlinks (they seem to ignore symlinks).  Try
>    zip -yr xxx .
> on a directory with only a single symlink in it.

When zip(unzip) went to 2.3(5.41), cygwin was built using the "NT"
system identifier, instead of the "unix" system identifier.  I (and many
others) don't like this behavior; it's my intention to go back and
rebuild these packages with appropriate patches so that cygwin builds
revert to the 2.2(5.32) behavior, in which cygwin used the "unix" system
identifier.

I just haven't gotten around to it.

It's on my list.  Honest.

--Charles Wilson

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