Re: link-follow and mingw

2009-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Meyering on 9/22/2009 7:08 AM: > At first I wondered why it would be necessary to unlink sym, a file > named "conftest.sym" here, when right after this test, the usual > rm -fr conftest* would remove it for us? Then I looked, and see

Re: link-follow and mingw

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Eric Blake on 9/4/2009 11:58 AM: >> Unfortunately, I don't have linkat working yet > > Still true, but here's another piece of the puzzle. > > fcntl_h.m4 created a symlink conftest.sym, but never cleaned it up; as a > result, an ill-timed link-follow.m4 failed to cr

Re: link-follow and mingw

2009-09-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 9/4/2009 11:58 AM: > Unfortunately, I don't have linkat working yet Still true, but here's another piece of the puzzle. fcntl_h.m4 created a symlink conftest.sym, but never cleaned it up; as a result, an ill-timed link-foll

link-follow and mingw

2009-09-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a pre-requisite to linkat, and implementing POSIX 2008 ln(1) -L and -P options. It will make it possible to decide whether linkat should call plain link, readlink/link, or error out with ENOSYS (on the few remaining systems where link() doesn'