From: sam@campbellsci.co.uk (Samuel James Liddicott) Subject: Re: Problem with symbolic links in b18 4 Feb 1998 05:59:31 -0800 Message-ID: <052201bd316e$33481ed0$2a0110ac.cygnus.gnu-win32@sam.ethernet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Gasul , gnu-win32@cygnus.com -----Original Message----- From: David Gasul To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Date: 04 February 1998 13:02 Subject: Problem with symbolic links in b18 Hi, Here's a problem I encountered with symbolic links: 1. Assume you have a DOS executable in directory c:\xxx called yyy.exe. 2. Assume bash is run from directory c:\zzz. 3. Enter bash 4. Do "ln -s c:\xxx\yyy.exe yyy.exe". 5. Verify that there's a file "yyy.exe" in c:\zzz. 6. Run yyy.exe from bash - everything works fine. 7. Now exit bash. 8. Run yyy.exe. You get a window telling you that the program has performed an illegal operation. Opening the details button says that the program tried to execute an illegal instruction at 1F00:8AC3. This is because your are now running yyy.exe from c:\zzz, and this yyy.exe is not a real exe file, but one of your cygwin shortcuts that windows doesn't like. Windows & dos checks the current dir for a file before looking in the path. Sam Liddicott | Nothing I say is to be attributed as | Campbell Scientific Ltd. | a company statement or representation. | Campbell Park, 80 Hathern Road, *----------------------------------------+ Shepshed, Leic. United Kingdom. LE12 9AL Phone: +44 (0) 1509 601141 Email: sam@campbellsci.co.uk Fax: +44 (0) 1509 601091 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".