On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 07:28:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 11:56:07PM +0200, Sprenger, Karel wrote:
>>After redefining the old-style symlinks I had to the new cygwin 1.3.1
>>style, I noticed that the cd command (a bash builtin) no longer follows
>>symlinks. For example, /usr/lib/terminfo is a symlink to the directory
>>/usr/share/terminfo, but cd -L /usr/lib/terminfo nor cd -L
>>/lib/terminfo work. Leaving out the -L option results in the same
>>message "bash: cd: /usr/lib/terminfo: No such file or directory".
>>Ironically, NT's explorer recognizes the symlink and behaves as
>>expected.
>
>This particular symlink is actually broken in 1.1.8, too.
>
>I have no problems with other symlinks, though.
>
>Can you provide a simple test case that worked on 1.1.8 but
>fails on 1.3.1?
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