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Re: bugs in zip and bash
- To: John Wiersba <John dot Wiersba at medstat dot com>
- Subject: Re: bugs in zip and bash
- From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 03:28:01 -0400
- CC: 'cygwin' <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F56D@aa-msg-01.medstat.com>
John Wiersba wrote:
> 4) zip -y and unzip (from Charles Wilsons cygutils site) are broken with
> respect to properly handling symlinks (they seem to ignore symlinks). Try
> zip -yr xxx .
> on a directory with only a single symlink in it.
When zip(unzip) went to 2.3(5.41), cygwin was built using the "NT"
system identifier, instead of the "unix" system identifier. I (and many
others) don't like this behavior; it's my intention to go back and
rebuild these packages with appropriate patches so that cygwin builds
revert to the 2.2(5.32) behavior, in which cygwin used the "unix" system
identifier.
I just haven't gotten around to it.
It's on my list. Honest.
--Charles Wilson
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