Problem with symbolic links in b18

David Gasul davidg@telegate.co.il
Wed Feb 4 03:36:00 GMT 1998


Hi,
 
Here's a problem I encountered with symbolic 
links:
 
1. Assume you have a DOS executable in directory c:\xxx called 
yyy.exe.
2. Assume bash is run from directory 
c:\zzz.  
3. Enter bash  
4. Do "ln -s c:\xxx\yyy.exe 
yyy.exe".  
5. Verify that there's a file "yyy.exe" in 
c:\zzz.  
6. Run yyy.exe from bash - everything works 
fine.  
7. Now exit bash.  
8. Run yyy.exe. You get a window telling you that the program 
has performed an illegal operation.  
    Opening the details button says that the program tried to execute an illegal instruction 

    at 
1F00:8AC3.  
 
Cheers,
Dave  
 



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