Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:16:49 -0400 From: "Ighighi Ighighi" <ighighi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: local "jailed" symlinks Message-ID: <de5dfb5a0709130216n73208e30w9f4daccf4086f697@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <f0037ce96e1439ea607a2c7e381948a1@gmail.com> References: <46E8DF09.40008@gmail.com> <f0037ce96e1439ea607a2c7e381948a1@gmail.com>
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On 9/13/07, Joshua Isom _ jrisom at gmail.com _ wrote: > Make all of your symlinks relative instead of absolute. It might mean > linking /foo/bar/baz to /bax/bay/baw as ../../../bax/bay/baw but it > would suffice. This is precisely the kind of manual intervention that I want to avoid... Ideally, it should be done automatically. Your approach wouldn't work on read-only filesystems (and some of them can't be mounted read-write anyway: ISO-9660 with Rockridge extensions). By the way, I thought of using unionfs but it would be overkill and messy. Salutes, Igh.
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