cygport dropping *.exe links

[Eric Blake]

On 08/15/2014 09:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 15 16:47, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 15/08/2014 13:26, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>>> Hi Yaakov,
>>> I just noted a strange effect
>>>
>>
>>> Is it possible that latest binutils update is fooling cygport ?
>>> In the past, it seems they were renamed ( mpirun.exe to mpirun)
>>>
>>
>> looking further, it seems not a cygport issue at all
>>
>> $ touch a.exe
>> $ ln -s a.exe b.exe
>>  $ ls -l
>> total 1
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 marco Administrators 0 Aug 15 16:41 a.exe
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco Administrators 5 Aug 15 16:41 b.exe -> a.exe
>>
>> $ mv b.exe b
>> $ ls -l
>> total 0
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 marco Administrators 0 Aug 15 16:41 a.exe
> 
> Looks like a bug in coreutils 8.23.  This works fine in coreutils-8.15.
> 
> Eric?

Yep, I'm investigating.  :(

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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