From ef01aeac6863a9bd2a990898b906e195fa2e129f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Starks-Browning Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:04:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update entry "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?", add advice about -follow option if CWD is symlink. --- winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo index b18619a81..37dde02dd 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo @@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ Make sure you are using the find that came with Cygwin and that you aren't picking up the Win32 find command instead. You can verify that you are getting the right one by doing a "type find" in bash. +If the path argument to find, including current directory (default), is +itself a symbolic link, then find will not traverse it unless you +specify the @samp{-follow} option. This behavior is different than most +other UNIX implementations, but is not likely to change. + @subsection Why doesn't man work? Even after installing the @samp{man} package, you get an error like this: