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Date:      Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:23:06 -0500
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>, 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>

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On Saturday, January 27, 2001 21:28:24 +0100, Gerhard Sittig 
<Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> 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]



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