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On Feb  1 12:51, DEWI - N. Zacharias wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> another problem after updating cgwin . The bash completion don't work for symlinks .
> 
> assume having a /cygdrive/c/bin directory which contains symlinks to scripts in a central directory on our file sever say /cygdrive/x /centraltools/
> 
> eg.
> 
>  /cygdrive/c/bin/dosomething.pl -> /cygdrive/x /centraltools/dosomething.pl
> 
> The strange thing is, old links as well as new ones executed fine. Only they don't appear in the completion.
> 
> Can someone tell me why ??

Work for me.  Your symlink points to a script which has no execute
permissions (if "acl" is set on the target mount), or the script doesn't start
with a shebang.


Corinna

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