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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple