In the past I have used corutils' link without any problem. I can't
recall when I last did use it successfully, but certainly prior to
Cygwin 1.7. At the moment, however, link is not actually linking, but
appears rather to be creating a simple copy of the file linked to, as
the following illustrates (on Windows Vista):
14:57:11 Paul bibbi...@jijou
/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $cp /usr/bin/zoo.exe zoo.exe
14:57:37 Paul bibbi...@jijou
/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $link zoo.exe zoo_link
14:57:54 Paul bibbi...@jijou
/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $ls -l
total 128
-rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo.exe
-rwxr-xr-x+ 2 Paul Bibbings None 65024 Apr 12 14:57 zoo_link.exe
14:58:04 Paul bibbi...@jijou
/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $rm zoo.exe
14:58:50 Paul bibbi...@jijou
/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $./zoo_link
zoo 2.1 $Date: 91/07/09 02:10:34 $
Usage: zoo {acDeglLPTuUvx}[aAcCdEfInmMNoOpPqu1:/....@n] archive file
("zoo h" for help, "zoo H" for extended help)
Novice usage: zoo -cmd archive[.zoo] file... where -cmd is one of
these:
-add -extract -move -test -print -delete -list -update -freshen
-comment
with:
15:02:15 Paul bibbi...@jijou
/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $cygcheck -c coreutils
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
coreutils 8.4-2 OK
15:09:26 Paul bibbi...@jijou
/cygdrive/d/Downloads/link_test $cygcheck -c cygwin
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.7.4-1 OK
Can I ask first of all: does link itself use ln and should I be testing
this?
Regards
Paul Bibbings
[Note: cygcheck not added pending confirmation/otherwise as a problem
with link itself]
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