Can't see symlink with ls

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Mon Mar 19 14:00:00 GMT 2001


At 04:38 PM 3/19/2001, Primitive Guy wrote:
>I can create a symlink with ln -s to create a symbolic link to an existing windows directory.  
>
>I can also cd to the link and do an ls.  
>
>I can't see the symbolic directory name when I do ls from the directory where I created the link.
>
>home $ls
>home $
>home $ ln -s C:/dev /dev
>home $ ls
>home $
>home $ cd dev
>dev  $


Send the output of cygcheck ls, cygcheck ln, and cygcheck -s -r -v to the list.
Also, repeat the same test in some subdirectory and don't use /dev, just to 
make sure you don't have a conflict somewhere.

Thanks,



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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