Weird problem with relative symbolic links

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:09:20PM -0400, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
>With a cygwin1.dll built from the current CVS repository:
>
>I have a symbolic link named "scratch" in my root directory, pointing
>at "d/scratch".  When I'm not in the root directory, I can't type "ls
>/scratch/jik" and see the contents of /d/scratch/jik -- instead, I see
>"/scratch/jik: No such file or directory".  If I "cd /" and run the
>command again, it works.

I think I've fixed this problem.

>(Is my understanding correct that problems in the current CVS
>repository which don't exist in the "stable" release should be sent
>here rather than to cygwin@cygwin.com?)

It's ok to report them here but I prefer that people in this mailing list
make some attempt, at least at tracking down and potentially fixing the
bug.

Sorry for the delay in responding.  This came in around the time that I
was on vacation and I missed it.

cgf