Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:34:13 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: shigio@wafu.netgate.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Improvement of ln(1). Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B61@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> From: shigio@wafu.netgate.net [SMTP:shigio@wafu.netgate.net] > > Do you mean a symbolic link including root directory is useless? > You are right. My example was bad. > > How about this example? > > % ln -sr /usr/src/sys/kern/tty.c /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kern/tty.c > % ls -l !$ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 shigio bin 33 Jul 14 23:56 > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/kern/tty.c -> > ../../../../../src/sys/kern/tty.c > > This symbolic link is solved in the '/usr' subdirectory. So, you can > mount > /usr file system at any point. > This example is a lot better. But is it really often needed (I mean, the automatic calculation of ../.. sequence) ? -Serge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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