From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 15 22:16:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CB537B401 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:16:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5G5FLt70293; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: dillon@earth.backplane.com Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, steveo@eircom.net, david@catwhisker.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] In-Reply-To: <200106160501.f5G51lf58001@earth.backplane.com> References: <200106160501.f5G51lf58001@earth.backplane.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010615221521A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:15:21 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 11 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Matt Dillon Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 22:01:47 -0700 (PDT) > Symlinks do not have to contain paths. People use them for all sorts > of things so it would be totally inappropriate to put any sort of True. It would break phk's malloc debugging features to disable this, for example. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message