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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new lstat implementation based on Win32 API, and
 make stat use that implementation too.
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:07:42 +0200
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Robin Rosenberg schrieb:
> $ ln -s Makefile x
> $ cp x y
> $ ls -ld x y
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 me me     8 sep  2 23:36 x -> Makefile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 me me 32164 sep  2 23:36 y

And if I understand the documentation correctly, then

$ mkdir foo && cd foo
$ cat ../x
x: No such file or directory

Right?

The docs say that symlinks without backslash are relative to the current 
directory (!!!).

-- Hannes