Re: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)

2005-03-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 25 09:37, Karl M wrote: > Sometimes doing a [ -f foo ]; will show a false true while the symlink is > being created. You can see this by opening two bash shells and executing Creating symlinks is not an atomic process in Cygwin. It requires several OS calls to create a symlink. Corinna

RE: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related)

2005-03-25 Thread Karl M
Hi All... Cut and paste error...I wanted to say execute while :; do rm foo; ln -s $$ foo; done in the first one. The line I used was part of furhter debugging work. From: "Karl M" Subject: test -f occasionally fails on sym links (keychain related) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:37:30 -0800 Hi All... Whi