From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 14 17:08:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07322 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:08:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wafu.netgate.net (wafu.netgate.net [204.145.147.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA07316 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 17:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shigio@wafu.netgate.net) Message-Id: <199807150008.RAA07316@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 12358 invoked from network); 14 Jul 1998 16:08:15 -0000 Received: from ins4.tama-ap3.dti.ne.jp (HELO choota.signet.or.jp) (203.181.67.4) by wafu.netgate.net with SMTP; 14 Jul 1998 16:08:15 -0000 Received: from choota.signet.or.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by choota.signet.or.jp (8.8.7/) with ESMTP id JAA00397; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:09:30 +0900 (JST) To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com cc: shigio@wafu.netgate.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improvement of ln(1). In-reply-to: Message from sbabkin@dcn.att.com of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:34:13 -0400." Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:09:30 +0900 From: Shigio Yamaguchi Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com > > > % 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) ? Yes, it is, at least for me. I need it especially to publish WWW site on the Internet and to make developpment environment on the LAN. I think the calculation of conversion between absolute and relative path should be done automatically not manually. -- Shigio Yamaguchi (Freelance programmer) Mail: shigio@wafu.netgate.net, WWW: http://wafu.netgate.net/tama/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message