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hardlink giving out .lnk?
- From: Julio Costa <costaju at gmail dot com>
- To: Cygwin Mailing list <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:51:30 +0100
- Subject: hardlink giving out .lnk?
Something strange... at least to me.
STC:
/tmp$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 PT00062412 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) 2009-10-03 14:33 i686 Cygwin
/tmp$ ls -l /dev/log
srw-rw-rw- 1 SYSTEM root 53 Oct 9 23:12 /dev/log
/tmp$ ln /dev/log log
/tmp$ ls -l
total 1
srw-rw-rw- 2 SYSTEM root 53 Oct 9 23:12 log.lnk
HUH? .lnk?? This is a **hard link**. And even if it was a symbolic,
there's no more .lnk, unless we ask explicitely, right?
FYI, I can do a ln -s log.lnk log, and it still works (eg., with
logger), AFAICS.
But this is probably not the intended way of working.
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