From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:02:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and make stat use that implementation too.
Message-ID: <20070905160206.GY14853@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <86y7fohtmw.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 01:32:07PM +0200, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> And if I understand the documentation correctly, then
> >
> >> $ mkdir foo && cd foo
> >> $ cat ../x
> >> x: No such file or directory
> >
> >> Right?
> >
> > correct.
> 
> Have you tested this, or is this from reading the documentation?  In
> either case: brilliant, but the former would be funnier (depending on
> one's sense of humor, of course).

umm, thanks for the notice, i was wrong:

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$ cat ../x
this is makefile
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the situation what triggers the 'no such file' problem is:

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$ touch foo/Makefile
$ mkdir bar
$ ln -s foo/Makefile bar
$ cd bar
$ cat Makefile
cat: Makefile: No such file or directory
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- VMiklos