Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:29:04 +0200
From:	Teun Burgers <burgers AT ecn DOT nl>
Subject:	Re: symlink() & is_v2_prog() question
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> > For example if symlinks to directories (and operations with such):
> >       mkdir x1
> >       mkdir x1/x2
> >       ln -s x1/x2 y1
> >       touch y1/foo
> 
> I understand that this should work in the proposed simulation.

Just want to mention that cygwin implements all this.
The cygwin ln command creates a one-line file y1 with the
following content:

!<symlink>x1/x2

How about being trying to be consistent with cygwin
in this respect?

Teun Burgers

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