test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)
Corinna Vinschen
corinna@vinschen.de
Tue Mar 29 14:04:00 GMT 2005
On Mar 25 09:37, Karl M wrote:
> Sometimes doing a [ -f foo ]; will show a false true while the symlink is
> being created. You can see this by opening two bash shells and executing
Creating symlinks is not an atomic process in Cygwin. It requires
several OS calls to create a symlink.
Corinna
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