Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:30:04 -0800 (PST) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <200203310730.g2V7U4t15573@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/36546; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
To: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
Cc: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:29:00 -0600 (CST)
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:09:47 +0900
> From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
> Cc: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
> Subject: Re: i386/36546: absolute symbolic links in FreeBSD 4.5
>
>
> mrspock> I found about five, try:
>
> Ok, here it is the list:
>
> /etc/termcap (-> /usr/share/misc/termcap)
> /etc/rmt (-> /usr/sbin/rmt)
> /usr/bin/newaliases (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper)
> /usr/bin/mailq (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper)
> /usr/sbin/sendmail (-> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper)
>
> mrspock> I was installing a diskless workstation. In the server I do
> mrspock> not have a floppy disk driver and I did not installed
> mrspock> mtools. In the client I had the need of using floppies. I
> mrspock> installed the client operating system in a disk slice and
> mrspock> mounted it in the server [let us say in "/dl" directory]. I
> mrspock> exported "/dl" with all its directories; installed mtools
> mrspock> and it crossed the file systems. dl/usr/local/bin/mwrite ->
> mrspock> /usr/local/bin/mtools and I could not use mcopy in the
> mrspock> client.
>
> I assume that in this example, /dl is a "root" directory for this
> diskless workstation, right? If yes, /dl/usr/local/bin should be
> treated as /usr/local/bin to this diskless workstation, so this
> symlink should work as it should be...
Sorry, I think I make something wrong.
You are right it works.
Nevertheless, wouldn't be better to have relative symbolic links?
>
> -- -
> Makoto `MAR' Matsushita
>
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