Re: [Mingw-users] Re: MSYS ln -s to directory

[Keith MARSHALL]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote, quoting Stepan Kasal:
>> 1) It was said here that MSYS supports file hard links on NT
>> filesystems.  So it is possible that under some circumstances,
>> LN=ln will be selected there.  Is this intentional?
>
> Yes, I think this is intentional.

If so, doesn't it expose this potential failure mode, observed with
MSYS `ln' on Win2K-NTFS?

  $ ls foo bar
  ls: foo: No such file or directory
  ls: bar: No such file or directory

  $ mkdir foo

  $ ln foo bar
  ln: `foo': hard link not allowed for directory

Regards,
Keith.