On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:35:26PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I have a question >> about how ls on cygwin displays a symlink pointing to the current >> directory. > >Yep, this is the right place. > >> >> When I do the following: >> >> # cd ~ >> # ln -s here . >> # ls -l here >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 gene.sally mkgroup 1 Jun 21 16:51 here -> >> >> I'm expecting the dereference to the symlink to display here -> . as >> this is the behavior on Linux. >> >> On cygwin, it appears that the "." does not display in the directory >> listing; however, the symlink works as expected, so this appears to me a >> cosmetic error. >> > >I confirmed it, and it is weird (Ditto for "ln -s .. parent"). I'll >investigate it further when I have more time, to see whether the fault >lies in ls (part of coreutils) or is common to all cygwin programs >using lstat. The link is properly showing up as size 1, so it seems >like the `.' should be printing.
That is indeed strange but I don't think it's a coreutils bug. It looks like a cygwin bug to me. If I call 'readlink' on the "here" symlink in perl, it returns nothing. Sigh. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
