On Apr 12 15:15, Paul Bibbings wrote: > 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
Looks exactly as expected. Notice the link count. if you us `ls -li' you will also see that both directory entries have the same inode number, so they are referring to the same file. What's your problem again? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
