Re: New symlinks.

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:29:54PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Heribert Dahms wrote:
> >> Yeah, and what should
> >>      find . | xargs ls -ld
> >> find implicitly and write explicitly?
> >
> >It should implicitely find foo and explicitely write `foo'
> >since that is given from find to xargs.
> >
> >My point is simply iff somebody asks for foo.lnk _knowingly_
> >Cygwin shouldn't react with `File not found'. That's the true
> >surprise IMO.
> 
> That is the issue that I was raising initially.  We can agree to
> disagree on this fact.  It seems that people are currently speculating
> wildly without actually trying the current implementation.
> 

And should be the only issue left to discuss.
If
  ln -s foo bar
then
  ls -l bar.lnk
should output
  ls: bar.lnk: No such file or directory
because the user should not be concerned with implementation and from
the users point of view bar.lnk doesn't exist.

Earnie.

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