name collisions (not symlinks) on windows

Frank Kingswood frank at kingswood-consulting.co.uk
Tue Jan 26 05:04:31 CST 2010


Frank Kingswood wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> What is the expected behaviour of symlinks when updating on Windows?
> I seem to be getting Access denied errors on them.

Aww, crap. Someone did
    mkdir setup
    vi setup/foo
    ln -s setup SETUP

What happens on name collisions?

Frank

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