From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 17 17:40:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D831837B414 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f5I0dnI54598; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 04:39:49 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 04:39:47 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Matt Dillon Cc: Jordan Hubbard , bde@zeta.org.au, imp@harmony.village.org, steveo@eircom.net, david@catwhisker.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat] Message-ID: <20010618043946.A54578@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200106170518.f5H5I6V44586@harmony.village.org> <20010617113141A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010617231418.A60728@nagual.pp.ru> <200106172128.f5HLSe108208@earth.backplane.com> <20010618015913.A45621@nagual.pp.ru> <200106172204.f5HM46608526@earth.backplane.com> <20010618021515.B45861@nagual.pp.ru> <200106180001.f5I018c08998@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106180001.f5I018c08998@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:01:08PM -0700 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 On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 17:01:08 -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > I'm sorry, I don't understand... what does this have to do with > an empty symlink verses a symlink containing something else? > 'rm' does not traverse symlinks. I not mean 'rm' literally. Read Bruce's comment about how fake names constructed. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message