link call patched [was Re: broken 'ln' behavior -Reply]

[Corinna Vinschen]

FYI, I have patched the link(2) call in cygwin1.dll so that paths
are checked if they have a trailing slash. In that case, link()
bails out now with EINVAL.

This patch will be part of the tomorrows snapshot.

Corinna

Chris Portaix wrote:
> I've had this same problem using shell scripts (csh, tcsh, sh and bash)
> on cygwin; they do not recognize these links. So I modofeid them to cp
> insteat of ln. It's a temporary solution cause things can get tricky with cp.
> regards,
> Chris

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