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Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:39:22 +0200
- Subject: Re: link (corutils) 8.4-2: doesn't link
- References: <87mxx8zric.fsf@gmail.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Apr 12 15:15, Paul Bibbings wrote:
> In the past I have used corutils' link without any problem. I can't
> recall when I last did use it successfully, but certainly prior to
> Cygwin 1.7. At the moment, however, link is not actually linking, but
> appears rather to be creating a simple copy of the file linked to, as
> the following illustrates (on Windows Vista):
>
> 14:57:11 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $cp /usr/bin/zoo.exe zoo.exe
>
> 14:57:37 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $link zoo.exe zoo_link
>
> 14:57:54 Paul Bibbings@JIJOU
> /cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $ls -l
> total 128
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo.exe
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo_link.exe
Looks exactly as expected. Notice the link count. if you us `ls -li'
you will also see that both directory entries have the same inode number,
so they are referring to the same file. What's your problem again?
Corinna
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