2009/10/5 Vincent Rivière <vincent.rivi...@freesbee.fr>: > Do you agree this is a bug and it should be fixed ?
I've got nothing to do with the code, but I am an interested observer. In my experience, it should be possible to create symlinks to any arbitrary target, regardless of whether it actually exists or not. Therefore, if I create a symlink to "/bin/ls" then I'd expect that to be the content of the symlink - the automatic behaviour of rewriting it to "/bin/ls.exe" is unexpected and therefore probably incorrect according to some "standard" somewhere. Perhaps the 'shortcut' of omitting the .exe extension is getting in the way here - it's preventing unambiguous identification of the symlink target. But maybe I misunderstand the scope of symlinks and something somewhere says the system can rewrite them to point at valid targets if it wishes? -- David. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
