From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 27 19:23:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3D237B699 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 19:23:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu (uavxxl@PYANFAR.REM.CMU.EDU [128.2.87.225]) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0S3N7Z28633; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:23:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:23:06 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: Gerhard Sittig , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Buildworld failure using two disks Message-ID: <139420000.980652186@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010127212824.R253@speedy.gsinet> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6b3 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, January 27, 2001 21:28:24 +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote: +----- | I'm not willing to follow you here. AFAIK symlinks only contain | a *name* in their origin and neither do they care where they | point to nor what type the destination is of nor if the +--->8 ...but they cannot be created *on* msdos filesystems because the filesystem doesn't know about them. Which, if I've been following this correctly, is what was happening. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message