RE: Unusual new look to symlinks to executables

2005-04-06 Thread fergus
Thank you for responding so quickly and so fully. > Also, did you upgrade to cygwin 1.5.14 at the same time? > It might be a change in the cygwin path handling. Not at the same time, but it may be that this was the first time I used the "link-checking script" since upgrading to 1.5.14. Certainly

Re: Unusual new look to symlinks to executables

2005-04-05 Thread Reini Urban
Eric Blake schrieb: ... Below is the table of how I think ln(1) ought to behave (I'm open to suggestions if others think differently). Where ln(1) does not actually behave this way, I am open to help in patching coreutils to provide the desired functionality. Hopefully my webmail interface didn't

Re: Unusual new look to symlinks to executables

2005-04-05 Thread Eric Blake
> This seems to have happened with today's upgrade to coreutils and > possibly with the recent upgrade to tetex. I am not certain whether > anything is broken, but I am certain that things are different. It was not today's upgrade to coreutils (on a machine still running coreutils-5.3.0-3, the /bi