> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of chris
> Sent: 11 May 2004 21:21
> 4) Replace links to executables with a very small executable
> which does
> the linking process. I've been experimenting a little with
> this and it
> doesn't seem like a bad idea, except a) it involves hacking where you
> want to link to into the executable (not too bad), b) the
> shortcut is no
> longer reckonised by ls / ln / etc (would this be hard to
> fix?) and c) I
> can't make a cygwin executable <10kish (this is still not that large,
> and I'm sure someone better than me could make it smaller.
>
> Any comments / suggestions?
4) seems to me not worth the effort. It works for executables but isn't any
use for any other filetype at all; it only works for executing those
executables, not for reading them as ordinary files or ls'ing or rm'ing
them; it seems like a bad kludge that introduces a lot of complications in
exchange for which it only solves one limited case of one limited aspect of
the general problem.
cheers,
DaveK
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