Solved. Thank you very much~

On 4/20/2013 1:44 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2013-04-20, Arthur Tu wrote:
After I did this:
$ ln -s Repos/bugn/ Projects/

A file named `bugn` is created under Projects,
as it is said in the cygwin documentation.

However, cygwin does recognise `bugn` as a link file,
while can't determine where it point to.

I draged the file to notepad.exe, and see following text:

!<symlink> e p o s / b u g n /


$ cygcheck -f /bin/ln.exe
coreutils-8.15-1

I am sure `ln -s some_directory` used to work well on my computer.
I tested hard link or soft link of the file, it worked well.
Help.
This is not a Cygwin problem.  Linux, for example, behaves the same.

What you did was create a symbolic link in Projects to the file
named Repos/bugn, a relative path name.  Any reference to
Projects/bugn is resolved to Projects/Repos/bugn.  This is correct,
but not what you intended.

One alternative would be

     $ ln -s ../Repos/bugn/ Projects/

Another would be

     $ ln -s $PWD/Repos/bugn/ Projects/

Which one is better depends on your environment and on what you're
trying to achieve.

Regards,
Gary


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