Noticed today, not sure it is new nor that is Cygwin specific.
It can create unrequested circular links, to replicate: $ cd /tmp $ mkdir dirA $ mkdir dirB $ cd dirA $ ln -fs /tmp/dirB dirB $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco marco 9 Feb 9 06:33 dirB -> /tmp/dirB $ cd dirB $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 marco marco 7 Feb 9 06:25 dirB -> ../dirB I built nothing in dirB, but now there is inside a circular link to itself. It only happens with "ln -fs" not with "ln -s" Regards Marco -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
