After many days breaking my head asking myself: "-Why can't I write a simple program that work on Linux and on Cygwin?" After thinking bad about glibc and hating the guy who invented symlinks: After short circuiting my Linux box 2 Ethernet cards;
Finally you may look in the files section of this group a prof that it is Cygwin symlinks implementation that is broken. Just: tar -xzvf statbug.tar.gz And run: make check Comments are welcome.