From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 14 13:34:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10033 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw1.att.com [192.128.133.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10024 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 13:34:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by kcgw1.att.com; Tue Jul 14 15:34 CDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by kcig1.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id PAA05700 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:34:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id <37TTY5N5>; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:34:15 -0400 Message-ID: To: shigio@wafu.netgate.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Improvement of ln(1). Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:34:13 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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